The fact is, people who don't have any misfortunes are very irritating to their neighbours. No opportunities for popping in with condolences and new-laid eggs. No visits to the afflicted. No opportunities for the milk of human kindness to flow. Naturally it doesn't.

when married people begin to talk about their rights, it means something has gone pretty far wrong between them.

The fact is, people who don't have any misfortunes are very irritating to their neighbours. No opportunities for popping in with condolences and new-laid eggs. No visits to the afflicted. No opportunities for the milk of human kindness to flow. Naturally it doesn't.

Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.

Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough

My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for them. And of course he was perfectly right.

A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.