There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.

Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

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.

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not caring more; but one cannot and it is better, for if one grieved too deeply at other people's tears, life would be unendurable; and every man has sufficient sorrows of his own without taking to heart his neighbour's.

As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.