Never explain, never complain.
For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
There can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed.
I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
You can never be too rich or too thin.
There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.