Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the only, the yours.
I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
Deep experience is never peaceful.
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
However British you may be, I am more British still.
He was there or was not there: not there if I didn’t see him.
Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
If this was love, love had been overrated.
I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.
Ideas are, in truth, force.
I’m yours for ever – for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games.