The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

Fantastic shadows of birds

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.