The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.

She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.

This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.

I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.