Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.

The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.