Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

I've got an adjective that just fits you.

A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...

Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.

It’s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they’re never coming again, and I’m not really getting all I could out of them.