I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!

They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.

Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite luxury of Socialism--that true Socialism which is based not on equality of income or character, but on the equality of manners. In the democracy of the caffè or the street the great question of our life has been solved, and the brotherhood of man is a reality. But it is accomplished at the expense of the sisterhood of women.

Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “...There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.

When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.