Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.

I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the exercise of their fascinating gift and their insincerity.

Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.

The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.