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

... there are spines to which the immobility of worship is not a strain.

I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

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.

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

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.