People have never lost what they think they have.

Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling.

When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!