I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.

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.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way; without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type.

Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.

Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.