Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

To be popular I must be mediocre.

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect---simply a confession of failures. Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. But I don't want to interrupt you. Go on with your story.