Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.

Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

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.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

you will always love, and you will always be loved