In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.

But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design.

We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual. Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house.

Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.