The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

All art is quite useless.

Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.