Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.

Any rapidly enacted episode. . .should be seen through only one pair of eyes.

There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.

The turnings of life seldon show a sign-post; or rather, though the sign is always there, it is usually placed some distance back, like the notices that give warning of a bad hill or a level railway-crossing.

It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!