People in love, in whom every sense is open, cannot beat off the influence of a place.

She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her.

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same.

Education is not so important as people think.

But complex people are never certain that they are not crooks, never certain their passports are quite in order, and are, therefore, unnerved by the slightest thing.

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.