I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.

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

Duty is seldom liked either by the doer or the object ... And why should it be? It is not often of advantage to either.

Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.

If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.

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