Do you always laugh when you make love?' said Fabrice. I hadn't thought about it, but I suppose I do. I generally laugh when I'm happy and cry when I'm not. Do you find it odd?

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.

oh how television diminishes everything.

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.

Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !

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.

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?