Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.

Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just as any period decays in our minds, the things of that period should decay too, and in that way they're preserved for a while in the few hearts like mine that react to them. Trying to preserve a century by keeping its relics up to date is like keeping a dying man alive by stimulants.

but they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.

If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.

She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.