A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

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

I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession.

Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events.

Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.