“I don't care about the London season! It is too matrimonial. People are either hunting for husbands, or hiding from them.”

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”

“The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.”

“Cecily is the sweetest, dearest, prettiest girl in the whole world. And I don't care twopence about social possibilities.”

“I felt that this grey, monstrous London of ours, with its myriads of people, its sordid sinners and its splendid sins”

“The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.”

“One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.”