Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.

They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun... They were dressed half for battle, half for tennis or croquet.

To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency."

You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.

A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.