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

You think too much.' 'I suppose I do; but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches--a perfect circlet of pain! But I carry it as a queen carries her crown.

Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.

I always want to know the things one shouldn't do." "So as to do them?" asked her aunt. "So as to choose." said Isabel

Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.