I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.

You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.

When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm

The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.

It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries... but our children's friends must show a blank service record.

No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.

Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.