But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.' Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly. 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.

In France that is the one rule, never make trouble.

Spring came late, but when it came it was hand-in-hand with summer, and almost at once everything was baking and warm, and in the villages the people danced every night on concrete dancing floors under the plane trees.

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.

One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source of joy to live here, and there is nobody so miserable as a Parisian in exile from his town.

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.

When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.