If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

Adventures do occur, but not punctually.