What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

No one is ever holy without suffering.

The tour bus was supposed to be here ten minutes ago. Would it be possible to give them a ring to check they've not forgotten us?

I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?

The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!