Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.

No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

There is no ordinary run of mankind, there are only individuals who are totally different. And whether a man is naked and black and stands on one foot in Sudan or is clothed in some kind of costume in a bus in England, they are still individuals of entirely different characters.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.