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

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.

oh how television diminishes everything.

If I had a girl I should say to her, 'Marry for love if you can, it won't last, but it is a very interesting experience and makes a good beginning in life. Later on, when you marry for money, for heaven's sake let it be big money. There are no other possible reasons for marrying at all.

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.

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

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.