Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.

I've sometimes thought . . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.

Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.

The useless men are those who never change with the years.

There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.

I think one remains the same person throughout, merely passing, as it were, i these lapses of time from one room to another, but all in the same house.