I was a failure in Boston...because they thought I was too fashionable to be intelligent, and a failure in New York because they were afraid I was too intelligent to be fashionable.

Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.

And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.

Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.

He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty.

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

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