It may be necessary to make compromises in everyday politics, but we cannot compromise with our conscience.

Without Britain, Europe would remain only a torso.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Living on the water took away the boundaries created by land and custom and introversion. Without fences and driveways, the water provided a constant thread of connection and dependency.

The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.

I imagine them very clearly and then attempt to describe what I can see. Sometimes I draw them for my own amusement! (talking about her characters and scenes)

Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree's summit.

Excessive wealth is a great problem masquerading as a great good.

I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.

He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential.

in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.