You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and beauty, and I want its stairs to creak as if to the footsteps of women with hoop skirts and men in boots and spurs. But they've made it into a blondined, rouged-up old woman of sixty.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

You know, you’re a little complicated after all.” “Oh no,” she assured him hastily. “No, I’m not really - I’m just a - I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.