men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it.

Do you see any majority, anywhere, in this imperfect and irreligious world, admitting that the minority is precious? That any minority is precious?

On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate it. You will not find them indulging often.

... it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great many inhibitions to follow a social code.

Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin.

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.