Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.

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.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us

Grandma's house had the atmosphere of a Tupperware box left out in the sun. Like a tropical flower, she had to be kept warm and moist at all times, or she would wilt and die.

I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.

Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief.

If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something better

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.

Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.

Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.

Everything I am is because of my mom.