The one thing that everybody wants is to be freenot to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none of these things they all want to feel free … The only thing that any one wants now is to be free, to be let alone, to live their life as they can, but not to be watched, controlled and scared, no no, not.

A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

You are all a lost generation.

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.