The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.

She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her.

But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it?

Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.

Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with.

Some ideas, like dandelions in lawns, strike tenaciously: you may pull off the top but the root remains, drives down suckers and may even sprout again.

... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.