Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend. The whole city and its surroundings are a romantic set. ... Nice promenades, good wine, excellent food, nothing to do.

I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Not the why but the what.

I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.