To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.

It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.

Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?

The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.

It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.