People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence, one word of truthsounds like a pistol shot.

Sanctification of the Spirit is the grace of salvation.

Let your words be petty and actions plenty!

Great writers teach as well as entertain.

On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious.

It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.

I'm so moved to hear Celia Johnson again, so lovely.

Politics has become a blood sport that goes beyond just the person whose name is on the ballot.

Crying was like pissing everything out on the ground.

They hadn't much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.