She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.

London is on the whole the most possible form of life.