I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them - children, duties, visits, bores, relations - the things that protect married people from each other.

She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

The very good people didn't convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you had felt the world outside tugging at one with all its golden hands — and yet you hated the things it asks of one; you hated happiness bought by disloyalty and cruelty and indifference.

Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.