There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.
If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
You’re beginning to dislike me, aren’t you? Well, dislike me. It doesn’t make any difference to me now.
The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.
Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
It was one of the queer things of life that you saw a person every day for months and were so intimate with him that you could not imagine existence without him; then separation came, and everything went on in the same way, and the companion who had seemed essential proved unnecessary.