"Lady Cannon's gone to a matinée at the St. James's. We had tickets for the first night, but of course she wouldn't us…"

"Like all weddings it had left the strange feeling of futility, the slight sense of depression that comes to English p…"

"As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the…"

"He had no special hobbies, but he needed luxury in general of a kind, and especially the luxury of getting things in …"

"She thought that most women make a great mistake in allowing dress to be the master instead of the servant of their g…"

"Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these me…"

"On the first occasion she had sat next Henry James at dinner, she had not been able to resist putting to him certain …"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"

"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"