I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible.

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?

Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.