By god, DH Lawrence was right when he said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?

You have the most revolting Florence Nightingale complex,' said Mrs. Smiling. It is not that at all, and well you know it. On the whole, I dislike my fellow beings; I find them so difficult to understand. But I have a tidy mind and untidy lives irritate me. Also, they are uncivilized.

Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.

Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.

A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'.

Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit.

I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.