Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!

In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?

Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think.

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.