There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.

I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.

Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptibilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life.

It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be

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