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.

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.

There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.

Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never retains for long the first thrust of tragic loss. The details of daily life crowd in upon the mind.

You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.

I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.