The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

no form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all there is in life, it seems to me. But I grant you, if you deny the variety of love you deny love altogether. If you try to specialize love into one set of accepted feelings, you wound the very soul of love. Love must be multi-form, else it is just tyranny, just death

To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.

Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.

Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.