Only love makes fruitful the soul. The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice, to dislike the clothes and voices of other men - all this was precious to her beyond everything.

I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

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

I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.

Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.

Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.