If there is to be any romance in marriage woman must be given every chance to earn a decent living at other occupations. Otherwise no man can be sure that he is loved for himself alone, and that his wife did not come to the Registry Office because she had no luck at the Labour Exchange.

No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, who knows that he is writing for fools and that, therefore, he had better write like a fool, makes a respectable living out of serials and novelettes; but he will never make the vast, the blaring, half a million success. That comes of blended sincerity and vitality.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world...

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.