Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

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.

But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design.

and he loved her suddenly because she loved him.