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When I see a cheerful young man shrieking about how full of life he is, banging on a drum, and blowing on a tin trumpet, and speaking of his good spirits, it depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can't be real. It ought to be but it isn't. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn't say it.
Suspense is torture ... but delightful
or there'd be no gambling in the world.
You don't know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
Envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.
The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would be of any real use. One would say it was there for trivialities only, since in a crisis they are usually dense, fatally doing the wrong thing. It is hardly too much to say that most domestic tragedies are caused by the feminine intuition of men and the want of it in women.
Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.
Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.
Everything comes to the man who won't wait.
She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
The Futurists? ... Well, of course, they are already past.
Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.
When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship
Dante
Petrarch
that sort of thing!
To a woman
I mean, a nice woman
there is no such thing as men. There is a man; and either she is so fond of him that she can talk of nothing else, however unfavourably, or so much in love with him that she never mentions his name.
An optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the wife of a great public success; to share his triumph! They forget you share the man as well!
People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.
You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
