Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.

Of all devils let loose in the world there is no devil like devoted love.

Well-bred English people never have imagination.

She reflected she must be completely besotted about Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the root causes of conflict are usually to be found in some wrong way of life in which all parties have acquiesced, and for which everybody must, to some extent, bear the blame.

Plain lies are dangerous.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.