It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

Like fingerprints, all marriages are different.

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

Worst of all, there is no sign of any relaxation of antisemitism. Logically it has nothing to do with Fascism. But the human raceis imitative rather than logical; and as Fascism spreads antisemitism spreads.