That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be.

I saw something nasty in the woodshed.

There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm

She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.

The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style

He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might have suspected mockery.

Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.

Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.

I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.

Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?

Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.

Every aspect of the way God views and saves sinners is designed to undermine racism and lead to a reconciled and redeemed humanity from every people group in the world.

Happiness is a state of mind, not the condition we find.

The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear the great truth has great silence.

I'm selling evolution. You grow or you die.

Authority to heal is given from on high.

Ask God's blessings on your work but don't ask Him to do it for you.

Life is all about change. We cling to what we know and what we have, and then we lose it, and then we regret not having it and try to replace it by finding and changing to something else.

Later in the day, a second verse became clear to my vision. It read: "Pray without ceasing."

Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler.

Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.