There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you.

it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

Being in a rage was rather like being out in a thunderstorm - you couldn't hear yourself think.

Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones.

I used to do miserably in English literature, which I thought was a sign of moral turpitude. As I look back on it, I think it was rather to my credit. The notion of actually putting writers' words into other words is quite ridiculous because why bother if writers mean what they mean, and if they don't, why read them? There is, I suppose, a case for studying literary works in depth, but I don't quite know what 'in depth' means unless you read a paragraph over and over again.

Mary Stuart wrote, 'My end is in my beginning.' It is easier to agree with her than to decide what is the beginning, and what is the end.