...there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady.

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

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

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.

... in general, the Anglo-Irish do not make good dancers; they are too spritely and conscious; they are incapable of one kind of trance or of being seemingly impersonal. And, for the formal, pure dance they lack the formality: about their stylishness (for they have stylishness) there is something impromptu, slightly disorderly.

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

Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as to make analysis or explanation of the relationships between the characters unnecessary.