There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor where all else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay.

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor where all else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay.

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.