Love delayed is lust augmented.

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world

The De Bernières were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

History is the propaganda of the victors.

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.