While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.