If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers. - William Somerset Maugham

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

It was like one of those comedies where the sets are good and the clothes pretty, where the dialogue is clever and the acting competent, so that you pass an agreeable evening, but a week later cannot remember a thing about it.

It looked as though the people we thought we knew best carried secrets that they didn't even know themselves. Charley had a sudden inkling that human beings were infinitely mysterious. The fact was that you knew nothing about anybody.