Yes, it seems that things like that should go on in London... It is better taste somehow that a man should be unfaithful to his wife away from home.

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

She had now reached an age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at twenty-one.

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.