So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.

The truer the facts the better the fiction.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.

At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them.