If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.

All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.

A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.

It is most oppressive to be an aunt.

Money is a jealous mistress If you want money you must want only money. ... I must tell you the one secret of life, there is only one: everything is a jealous mistress, everything is terribly possessive, and, by God, we want to be terribly possessed if we want to get somewhere - and we want to be terribly possessed - anyhow; or what is life?