How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

Of course it's all right for librarians to smell of drink.

I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it.

The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one.

My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream of consciousness' type and deal with an hour in the life of a woman at the sink.

I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with a teapot in my hand on every dramatic occasion.

There are no sick people in North Oxford. They are either dead or alive. It's sometimes difficult to tell the difference, that's all.

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels.

There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual.

There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we long to know about them.

Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.

I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.

One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur.

In this life ain't no happy endings; Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance.

[Donald Trump] says if he wins, he'll accept the outcome. If he lose, he will not accept the outcome. That is playing by two set of rules that is not very fair.

The fewer words a parent uses, the more aurhoritative the parent sounds & the clearer the instruction.

Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it the most.

The Jew bows before no man only God

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.

An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.