You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.

The Beatties were always arguing, it gave them an interest in life.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds

To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all.

Dogs may be divided into two classes: those who are merely afraid of cattle and those who can't abide them.

[... vastly different peoples live and work side by side but rarely come together, like the arms of an egg beater that] whirled independently and never touched, so that perhaps one arm never knew the other was there; yet they were together, turned by the same handle, and the cake was mixed by both.