There were some people, it seemed, who were incapable of being pleasant about anything. Of course, the cars that such people drove tended to be difficult as well. Nice cars have nice drivers; bad cars...
The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.
There was no point in telling somebody not to cry, she had always thought; indeed there were times when you should do exactly the opposite, when you should urge people to cry, to start the healing tha...
But he was an only child and an only son, and for a mother in such a position it is not always easy to accept that another woman will eventually enter her son’s life and, if all goes according to plan...
Some genealogies claimed to be able to trace the Maclean ancestry even further back, going as far as Julius Caesar, and, in some cases, admittedly more tendentiously, to the ancient Celtic god of the...
Es ist ein Zeichen geistiger Reife, seine Meinung zu ändern, wenn man merkt, dass man im Unrecht ist.
For a short while she considered the idea of orchestral courtesy. Certainly one should avoid giving political offence: German orchestras, of course, used to be careful about playing Wagner abroad, at...
She brought a chair into the room and placed it alongside the top of his bed. Then she held his hand as he drifted off to sleep. It was so small in her own hand, and it felt warm and dry. She pressed...
Perhaps trust had to be accompanied by a measure of common sense, and a hefty dose of realism about human nature. But that would need a lot of thinking about, and the tea break did not go on forever.
Society may be post-Christian, but could hardly ignore its Judeo-Christian past; we did not, after all, come from nowhere.
Will you be my friend? Bertie asked. And then added: Just for Paris. You don’t have to be my friend forever – just for Paris.
I do not think this is so, because there is no difference between white men and black men; we are all the same; we are just people.
Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.
Von Igelfeld was not sure. He remembered reading that Hume believed that our minds vibrated in sympathy, and that this ability – to vibrate in unison with one another – was the origin of the ethical i...
Telling a person with toothache that there are others with greater toothache than their own was no help at all.
That’s precisely what I’m saying: in order to become better people, we must practise, Isabel said.
The language of Cat's generation was far harder than that of her own, and more pithily correct: in their terms, he was a hunk. But why, she wondered, should anybody actually want a hunk, when non-hunk...
There are many temptations in this life, but cake is probably one of the biggest of them.
Some of my friends who play rugby talk about Murrayfield Stadium as sacred turf.
Not forgiving was like scratching at a sore to keep the healing scab from forming.
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