Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness.

The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life - that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.

Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine.

Don't try so much to form your character - it's like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose. Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.

She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.