Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.

It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.

Without work men are utterly undone

You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.

She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.