I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.
Be sure thy sin will find thee out.
Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.
Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together – and they call the result intuition.
Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.
I’ve always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.
Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory – let the theory go.
Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.
To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived...
The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.
Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!
Time is the best killer.
Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.
Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
It’s astonishing in this world how things don’t turn out at all the way you expect them to.