The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.
A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.
Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.
I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your - politeness.