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

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love; he had had enough of it; he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that.

The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.

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.