When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.

A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly. Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.' Didn't you mean them?' At the moment.

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

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.