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

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.

Writing is not primarily escape, but use.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.