You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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

It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.

Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.

A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.

Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.