She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.

How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!

The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

Why? Oh, well - I thought you'd be rather an attractive person to marry. That's all. I mean, I sort of took a fancy to you. I can't tell you why. There's no rule about it, you know.

the truth and value of a theory does not depend on the number of people who are interested in it - otherwise you might compare the number of people who follow the predictions of astrologers in the daily press with those who attend lectures by Einstein, and conclude that astrology was more valuable and true than physics.