I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.

That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as putting on your soft slippers. She was my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my sovereign, my trusty comrade, friends, shipmate, fellow-soldier. My mistress, but at the same time all that any man friend has ever been to me.

All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: "O God, make me a normal twentieth-century girl!" Thanks to our labors, this will mean increasingly: "Make me a minx, a moron, and a parasite.