Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.
People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?
We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.