She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his muffin. He knew enough anatomy to make pretty certain of getting the carotid artery. And at the same time he wanted to cover her pale, thin face with kisses.

Nothing more predisposes someone in our favour than to let him rob you a little.

For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.

There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.

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.

When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.