Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.

This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.

Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral standards are conspicuously and unprecedentedly breached in one area of society, such as the political, it will follow as the night the day that those standards will start collapsing all down the line-in sports, entertainment, education, the armed forces, business and government.

A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn't have been more surprised and pleased.

Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.