Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .

Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.

the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done

Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.

There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London. Such was not quite the condition of Timothy's on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy's soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte's body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.

The bicycle... has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language... equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation - in four words, the emanicipation of women.