“The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.”

“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”

“It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.”

“I remember your saying once that there is a fatality about good resolutions—that they are always made too late. Mine certainly were.”

“Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.”

“but love is not fashionable anymore, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about it that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once-but no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.”

“It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country”