She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

Did you know that Puritanism went hand in hand with dirt, that Oliver Cromwell put a 100 per cent tax on soap and that the repeal of the soap tax was one of the most popular acts of Charles II at his Restoration?

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Oh hearts! Nobody gets through life without a broken heart. The important thing is to break the heart so that when it mends it will be stronger than before.

The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature.