Tom Buchanan quotes

Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body—he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing, and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat. It was a body capable of enormous leverage—a cruel body.

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.

Civilization’s going to pieces. I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things.

Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time.

And if you think I didn’t have my share of suffering—look here, when I went to give up that flat and saw that damn box of dog biscuits sitting there on the sideboard, I sat down and cried like a baby.

What if I did tell him? That fellow had it coming to him.

By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.