"Deepest of all in her personality was the golden radiance that she diffused around her. As an open fire in a dark room throws romance and pathos into the quiet faces at its edges, so she cast her lights and shadows around the rooms that held her..."
"Well it all smells of Bohemian New York to me."
"Victorians, Victorians, who never learned to weep Who sowed the bitter harvest that your children go to reap--"
"You know," whispered Tom, "what we feel now is the sense of all the gorgeous youth that has rioted through here in two hundred years."
"Sometimes I wish I'd been an Englishman; American life is so damned dumb and stupid and health."
"This crisis-inspired religion is rather valueless and fleeting at best. I think four men have discovered Paris to one that discovered God."
"She is quite unprincipled; her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others. She loves shocking stories: she has that coarse streak that usually goes with natures that are both fine and big. She ants people to like her, but if they do not it never worries her or changes her. She is by no means a model character."
"I'm a romantic--a sentimental person thinks that things will last--a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. Sentiment is emotional."