Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

I used to build dreams about you.

Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .

They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.