One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]

Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.