In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

I suspect victims; they win in the long run.

There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.

People in love, in whom every sense is open, cannot beat off the influence of a place.