Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.

It was a little skirmish across a century.

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.

I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after them.

Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.

It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.