What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!

Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world.

That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.

Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling.... Sex lashes out against counterfeit emotion, and is ruthless, devastating against false love.

My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.