To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their (W/E Egg) dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.

I want to be a society vampire, you see.

Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.

Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment for the loss of his youth-bitter calomel under the thin sugar of love's exaltation.

A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.

Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.

Englishmen must have an island.