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.

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

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

It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.