IMPORTANT QUOTES


“Your nice - very nice…I’m fond of you. I like you”

“a very sound couple”

“…whom everybody was asking to dine”

“a ‘find’ of Bertha’s”

“Bertha had fallen in love with her, as she always did fall in love with beautiful women…”

“Harry voted her dullish, and cold like all blonde women…”

“I’m too happy – too happy!”

“Really – really – she had everything”

“They got on together splendidly and were really good pals”

“…had such a zest for life…for seeking in everything that came up against him another test of his power and of his courage”

“…all in silver, with a silver fillet binding her pale blonde hair”

“She seldom did look at people directly”

“It was as though she lived by listening rather than seeing”

“what a decorative group they made…they reminded her of a play”

“…cool, sleepy voice”

“don’t ask me about my baby. I never see her”

“she did look like a very intelligent monkey”

“Oh, she’d loved him…but not in that way”

“He really was the most attractive person…but so was Face…and so was Mug”

“It begins with an incredibly beautiful line : ‘Why must it always be tomato soup?”

“she was overcome, suddenly by a feeling of bliss – absolute bliss”

“Why have a baby if it has to be kept – not in a case like a rare, rare fiddle – but in another woman’s arms?”

“she had come into the nursery at another wrong moment”

“they were modern, thrilling friends…just the kind of friends they wanted”