Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.

The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so.

I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man, nothing but instant flight could save him.

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.

I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I'm going to bring up my daughter so that she's free and can stand on her own feet. I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he's willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.