It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.

She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.