A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.

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.

Your world is your story with tragedies and triumphs

I will always take on a new challenge. I believe in jumping off the ship every now and then. If you don't, you won't really learn how to swim

In one study, old people assigned to a geriatrics team stayed independent for far longer, and were admitted to the hospital less.

I have become a housewife and there is no better job.

There is no way I'm going to doubt myself at all.

Where would fashion be without literature?

You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself.

I like that totally mixed up kind of eclectic group of personal props and bits of costume and I think the fun of doing that is where I was very lucky with Doctor Who.

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.