The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.

I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.

God's love is not wearied by our sins & is relentless in its determination that we be cured at whatever cost to us or Him

She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.

We have discovered that the scheme of 'outlawing war' has made war more like an outlaw without making it less frequent and that to banish the knight does not alleviate the suffering of the peasant.

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.