I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.