As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.

Real life seems to have no plots.

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.

Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.

Whatever you do to the animals, you do to yourself.

Rest fixed most things. Sleep was my sweet reward. I treated bedtime as both incentive and sacrament.

Keep fit and have fun!" ~Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore.

The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.

Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no doubt that they will.

Partying has never been my thing. I've been around some wild people. I've been in the same room and watched them experiment, and that's been entertaining.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.