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

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.

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

It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.

I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.