Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.