Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit.

I saw something nasty in the woodshed.

There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm

She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.

The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style

He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might have suspected mockery.

Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.

Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.

I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.

That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be.

Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?

There is only one God and all atheists will learn that after their deaths

We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

The second, first thought.

If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

Our language is the reflection of ourselves.

My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.

I don't fear anybody... at all.

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

O fateful flower beside the rill- The Daffodil, the daffodil!