The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.

To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."

You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing ... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.