Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.

Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail.

She’s wonderful. Tell her I’ve never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.” Waddington, smiling, translated the question. “She says I’m good.” “As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue,” Kitty mocked.

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.