What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.

Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.

What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.

That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.

A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.

The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and what would I do with them, and how much were they going to get in my way?

... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.