By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Sunlight is painting.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.