After all, a man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing. - William Somerset Maugham

He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love; he had had enough of it; he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that.

Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

Bob Forestier had pretended for so many years to be a gentleman that in the end, forgetting that it was all a fake, he had found himself driven to act as in that stupid, conventional brain of his he thought a gentleman must act. No longer knowing the difference between sham and real, he had sacrificed his life to a spurious heroism.