On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one of the less cheerful German highbrow films.

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?

When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.

As in this world there are degrees of evils, So in this world there are degrees of devils.

God calls a man, ‘man’ only if he identifies himself with God’s values ad stands for truth and justice

One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.

A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

The only way to improve tomorrow is to know what you did wrong today.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Politicians can do more funny things naturally than I can think of to do purposely

We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.