Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.

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.

When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads.

He's in pain. I am, too. It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain we feel.

I think the people from Mississippi ought to come to Chicago to learn how to hate." Martin Luther King, Jr. after the violent reception he received in Chicago in 1966.

Whenever I date a guy, I think, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

Paul Scholes. The best! Great player, person, friend!

Steve McManaman once described Zinedine Zidane as ridiculous. You can't get a higher compliment than that.

The conversations about a film are an example of success because then you know whatever you've done has resonated.

So many are the deaths we die Before we can be dead indeed.