All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
The only thing I can't resist is temptation.
The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
The sky was pure opal now.
We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.