There's a lot of things look better at a distance

Beauty makes promises that beauty cant keep. I've seen it too many times. Twice in this house.

The sweeter the more lethal, Squire. Oh you do occasionally find one who flies her true colors. It's even refreshing in a way. A bitch to the teeth, fair field and no favor. Dried scrotums strung on a cord hanging from the footboard. But these other ones. The shy smile and the downturned eyes. Jesus. Spare me. What has happened to our cavalier, John?

Gudrun entered the taxi, with the deliberate cold movement of a woman who is well-dressed and contemptuous in her soul.

She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.

Connie woke up to the existence of legs. They became more important to her than faces, which are no longer very real.

She felt different from the rest of them, with their hard, easy, shallow intimacy, that seemed to cost them so little.

She had scornful grey eyes, a skin like white honey, and a full mouth with a slightly lifted upper lip, that did not know whether it was raised in scorn of all men, or out of eagerness to be kissed.

I judge people by their own principles — not by my own.

Dr. Dewey said that the deepest urge in human nature is "the desire to be important." Remember that phrase: "the desire to be important." It is significant. You are going to hear a lot about it in this book.

She didn't realize what everyone knows: namely, that the expression one wears on one's face is far more important than the clothes one wears on one's back.

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable! This cyclonic issue of secession was to be settled a third of a century later, not by the mighty Webster, the gifted Clay, or the famous Calhoun, but by an awkward, penniless, obscure driver of oxen