English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature.

Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.

Nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love.