H.D., HERmione Quotes

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.

People who think about the past have no future.

One of the nicest things about living in America is the fact that sooner or later you are practically bound to get an award of some sort or other.

What Americans call cross-ventilation, the English call draughts.

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

She never sets foot out of her apartment or her past.

I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract.

[When asked if her husband was still living:] It's a matter of opinion.

There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.

My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands.

Love is a worn-out word. People love their cat, they love their house. I've never been in love with anyone but myself.

My worst fault is my belief that if you put bills unopened behind a picture frame, there is no need to pay them.

Some cynical biographer said to me, Make sure it's a good death. Make sure you're not picking someone who just declined.

A great city is a great solitude.

Writing a biography is not a love affair. It’s not a marriage. It’s a job, it’s a piece of work.

What an idiot

i'm going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed or worse expelled

That odd infallible sliding-like-crystal air on water that means day's left dawn for morning.

She didn't know that all her life would be spent gambling with the stark rigidity of words, words that were coin: save, spend and all the time George with his own counter had found her a way out.