“A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'.”

“Mrs Poste, who had wished people to live beautiful lives and yet be ladies and gentlemen.”

“One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.”

“There are some things (like first love and one’s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.”

“Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?”

“But she had a lively acquaintaince with confinement through the works of women novelists, especially those of the unmarried ones.”

“On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one of the less cheerful German highbrow films.”