She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.

Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world...

It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

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.

He is every other inch a gentleman.