The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.
All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.