It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. . . . Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.

Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a blow it must be when a man with imagination marries the beautiful bundle of clothes that he's been building ideals around, and finds that she's just a weak, whining, cowardly mass of affectations!

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.

They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.

As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.