The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay...I don't see the point of sad parties, do you? And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

In France that is the one rule, never make trouble.

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?

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?

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

Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.

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