What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?

..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.