Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.

Try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live in parenthesis.

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up.

we have invented sex guilt to take our minds off the real thing.