It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.

Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.

We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.

Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person." "That's true. That's the truest thing you ever said." "All right. I can respect that. Only you've got to play the game. Don't force an emotional situation and then blame me for it." "But I don't want any situation. I want to be left in peace.

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

But to Lord Peter the world presented itself as an entertaining labyrinth of side-issues

A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.