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

... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in great architecture, great painting and great literature. Only in the atmosphere thus engendered floats that impalpable dust of ideas which is the real culture. A colony of ants or bees will never create a Parthenon.

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life.

The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.

In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.