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

oh how television diminishes everything.

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

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.

Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?

Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !

Do you always laugh when you make love?' said Fabrice. I hadn't thought about it, but I suppose I do. I generally laugh when I'm happy and cry when I'm not. Do you find it odd?