Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.
I’m not sure he’s wrong about automobiles,” he said. “With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization – that is, in spiritual civilization. It may be that they will not add to the beauty of the world, nor to the life of men’s souls.
Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth. That is why the roles of the heroes and heroines of plays are given by the managers to the most youthful actors they can find among the competent.
Is this life?‘Alice wondered, not doubting that the question was original and all her own. ‘Is it life to spend your time imagining things that aren’t so, and never will be? Beautiful things happen to other people; why should I be the only one they never can happen to?
So far as Alice was concerned Russell might have worn a placard,‘Engaged’. She looked upon him as diners entering a restaurant look upon tables marked ‘Reserved”: the glance, slightly discontented, passes on at once.
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.
Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her – especially if that is what she desires.