Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed.

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.' 'I don't want to make it easier for you,' I said; 'I hope your heart may break; but I do understand.

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.

I don't believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn't been told about it. It's like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn't been told it existed.