The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys.
There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.
The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.
Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.
There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.
But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.
There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.
every mind is at least as heavy as mine