Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.

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

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

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his cheek like netted butterflies.