The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Romance at short notice was her speciality.

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.