A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'.

That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be.

The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.

Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.

Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.

One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.

There are some things (like first love and one’s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.