Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.

And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.

With thought, all problems can be resolved.