She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.