Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen.... It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.

You don't remove the evil in a person by killing the person.

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.