Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

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.

The show doesn’t go on because it’s ready it goes on because it’s 11:30.

Cruelty had been his weapon. But such a tool is dangerous and can spread further than you intend.

Desires intellectual, social etc., but they all be, Soul‟s longing through mind and senses activity.- 40 -

It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

There is no one right way to live.

Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place.

I have good legs, and why to hide them?

I like to break left when people think I'm going to go right.

As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'