Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man, nothing but instant flight could save him.

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.

Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.

There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.