You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it. But you'll be astounded to learn what the sea will do.' What do you mean?' she smiled. Well, love isn't a good sailor and it languishes on a sea voyage. You'll be surprised when you have the Atlantic between you and Larry to find how slight the pang is that before you sailed seemed intolerable.

You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it.