Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

the mute protest in your own bones

Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten pounds a week at begging, it would become a respectable profession immediately. A beggar, looked at realistically, is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand. He has not, more than most modem people, sold his honour; he has merely made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich.

Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.

She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.