There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

Embraces do not matter; they merely indicate the will to love and may as well be followed by defeat as victory. But disregard means that now there needs to be no straining of the eyes, no stretching forth of the hands, no pressing of the lips, because theirs is such a union that they are no longer aware of the division of their flesh.

Margaret Thatcher has one great advantage - she is a daughter of the people and looks trim, as the daughter of the people desire to be. Shirley Williams has such an advantage over her because she's a member of the upper-middle class and can achieve the kitchen-sink revolutionary look that one cannot get unless one has been to a really good school.

the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.