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

If one can't be happy, one must be amused.

Twice in her life she had mistaken something else for it; it was like seeing somebody in the street who you think is a friend, you whistle and wave and run after him, and it is not only not the friend, but not even very like him. A few minutes later the real friend appears in view, and then you can't imagine how you ever mistook that other person for him. Linda was now looking upon the authentic face of love, and she knew it, but it frightened her. That it should come so casually, so much by a series of accidents, was frightening.

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

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

I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.

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