About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.

...but [I] had sworn on the very day of my demobilization never to be under anyone’s orders for the rest of my life. Somehow I must live by writing.

People have thoughts they’d sooner not have. It happens in life.

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.

Vote in a national election.

Start doing the thing to have energy to do the thing

You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.

Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.

Enough fine weather and money and a few memorable meals make any place desirable.

I don't invest in the stock market, but I have pension funds - some in America and the UK.

Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own.

Shane talking to Claire - "Hang on - Slow down. I'm not going anywhere. You know that, right? You don't have to put out to keep me here. Well, as long as you eventually..." "Shut up" Claire said.