One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus.

I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.

Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a blow it must be when a man with imagination marries the beautiful bundle of clothes that he's been building ideals around, and finds that she's just a weak, whining, cowardly mass of affectations!

He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.

It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.