She was incurably dishonest.

Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.

But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.