For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.

Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!

You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.

The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.'

I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.

One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.