You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.

Little Tamar, forget the long ago. We are here and we are now, and that is all. We are making a new start.

The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War because of the trenches, and the incompetence of the people on all fronts.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

For there is never any way to go but in.