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

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

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none.

Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.

If one can't be happy, one must be amused.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.