To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married.

When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.

But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.' Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly. 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.

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

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.