Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.

The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." There is always something they insist on keeping, even at the price of misery.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.

I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.