My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for…

"Ask yourself if there is any explanation of the mystery of your own life and death."

Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.

I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, and ends when they shut them up again at one o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Nothing …

"A very remarkable work... in the present state of light literature in England, a novel that actually tells a story. It 's quite incredible, I know. Try the book. It has another extraordinary merit, it isn't written by a woman."

People who read stories are said to have excitable brains.

The actions of human beings are not invariably governed by the laws of pure reason