It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.

But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design.

The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.

No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.