I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.

Character is plot, plot is character.

Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".

Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I.

It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.

The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.