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.

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.

Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.

If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

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

You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.

I never was in such a horrid office . . . It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long, is it?