A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.

Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.

I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after them.

Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.

A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the forthrightness of the Victorians can give a modern.

It was a little skirmish across a century.

The nicest people fall in love indiscriminately ... while under the influence of that pre-eminently selfish lunacy they may make the most outrageous demands upon their friends with no other excuse than their painful need.