We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!

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

When a man says he doesn't understand a woman it's because he won't take the trouble.

I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.

But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer

Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.