Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.

A man filled with meat turns his back on the dry bones of political doctrine. Fanatical devotion to the ruling party comes more readily from the materially deprived At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.

I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.