Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.

It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.

I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour.

The bully and his victim never quite forget their first relations.

...though nothing is damaged, everything is changed.