Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.

Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.

- the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man.

you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.

Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.

Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.