It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country

No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.