Never is a long word.

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.

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.

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.

Prayer is apath.

The time to right the wrong ticks with precission.

I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson

The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.

There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.

Corruption is another tax on the consumer and it is the Maltese families who are forking the money to make up for such corruptions.

And have her back by midnight. " "Is that some powerful Caster hour?" "No. It's her curfew.

They're my mistakes. ... I didn't pick the right guys.

Expectation is a powerful attractive force.

When you get a group of kids together, especially boys, the psychology of those kids requires that they find a weak kid or a sensitive kid or a soft kid.