When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

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

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 . . .

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.

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

Beginnings are always messy.