Mr. Arnold Bennett feels he has ranked himself for ever as a dry wine by what he mixed with himself of Maupassant; nevertheless he has put on the market some grocer's Sauterne in the form of several novels that are highly sentimental so far as their fundamental balance of values is concerned.

Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.

Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit.

Marriage had certain commercial advantages. By it the man secures the exclusive right to the woman's body and by it, the woman binds the man to support her during the rest of her life.... A more disgraceful bargain was never struck.

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.