Britain wouldn’t have won the war without its eccentric geniuses.

In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.

Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.

Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love.

He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat

She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.

It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger.

Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.

People see what they expect to see.

The law don’t like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

Cases fired by emotion rather than money were dangerous.

There lived great souls in the history of the world.

The bourgeoisie are today evading taxation by bribery and through their connections

Those who worry stumble long The Way.Those who pray have no time to stray.

I could not 'make' you--except by force, which would break your mind.

Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.

It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.

A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.

It's easy to forget when you're an elite athlete that everyone else gets nervous as well. Even the best people in the world, at whatever they do, they're still nervous