Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

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

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

She’s wonderful. Tell her I’ve never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.” Waddington, smiling, translated the question. “She says I’m good.” “As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue,” Kitty mocked.

The best style is the style you don't notice.

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.