She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.

Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.

Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most prudent men.' Simon gave him a strange, one might even have thought a hostile, look. I should tear it out of my heart as I'd wrench out of my mouth a rotten tooth.

When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majority because they are supported by the approval of their neighbours. It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.