She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found his coat and hat under the faint gas-light of the hall, and plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

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

For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer noon, when the heat seems to have silenced the very birds and insects, and, lying sunk in the tasselled meadow grasses, one looks up through a level roofing of maple-leaves at the vast, shadowless, and unsuggestive blue.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.