Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me.

Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptibilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life.

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.