Great Throughts Treasury

"The world is disgracefully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain."

"There was a pause – just long enough for an angel to pass, flying slowly."

"Although there were moments even still in the grey glint of morning when the room had the agitated, stricken appearance of a person who had changed his creed a thousand times, sighed, stretched himself, turned a complete somersault, sat up, smiled, lay down, turned up his toes and died of doubts. But this aspect was reserved exclusively for the housemaids and the translucent threads of dawn."

"Mentally, perhaps she was already three parts glass. So intense was her desire to set up a commemorative window to herself that, when it was erected, she believed she must leave behind in it, forever, a little ghost. And should this be so, then what joy to be pierced each morning with light; her body flooded through and through by the sun, or in the evening to glow with a harvest of dark colors, deepening into untold sadness with the night."

"To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating."

"All millionaires love a baked apple."

"I adore italics, don't you?"

"I hear it's the Hebrew in Heaven, sir. Spanish is seldom spoken."

"I remember the average curate at home as something between a eunuch and a snigger."

"Must color change?"

"O, help me heaven, she prayed, to be decorative and to do right."

"It is said, I believe, that to behold the Englishman at his best one should watch him play tip-and-run."

"I suppose when there's no more room for another crow's-foot, one attains a sort of peace?"

"What ecstasy! It was the Egyptian sighing for his pyramid, of course."

"PRINCESS: I am always disappointed with mountains. There are no mountains in the world as high as I could wish. ADRIAN:ÿNo? PRINCESS: They irritate me invariably. I should like to shake Switzerland."

"She made a ravishing corpse."