They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.

Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams

Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

When ladies used to come to me in dreams, I said, 'Pretty mother, pretty mother.' But when at last she really came, I shot her.

Two is the beginning of the end.