Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

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

How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!" "I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same!

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.