“There's nothing discreditable about jealousy, Mr Bendrix. I always salute it as the mark of true love.”

“I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.”

“I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.”

“Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn't worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination ... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse.”

“There's nothing so heavy as books, sir--unless it's bricks.”

“I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.”

“I like to have a secret love affair, a hidden life, something to lie about.”