…like the Greeks, I suppose. They made a big thing of hoodwinking the Germans, until recently, of course. The Germans suddenly turned round and told the poor Greeks that the game was up. Oh dear. … I...
…She had been perfectly happy before she had met him; indeed she had been even slightly happier then. So the inscription might more accurately have read: To remind you of how happy you’ve been in Edin...
Unconscionable–eating the food in a supermarket was simply theft, and could be distinguished from shoplifting only by virtue of the nature of the container used to remove the property.
Those who have a great deal to complain about are so often silent in their suffering, while those who have little to be dissatisfied with are frequently highly vocal about it.
They were two people thrown together on a journey, who found themselves sharing the same railway compartment and becoming resigned to each other’s company.
There were occasions on which talking about distressing things merely kept those things alive, whereas not talking about them, consigning them to the past, forgetting them, allowed one to think about...
That was enough to make her blush with shame for the mere fact that Las Vegas existed. There
She knew that this man, this mechanic, this fixer of machines with their broken hearts, did indeed love and admire her—was like walking in the sunshine;
She imagined what it would be like to live with somebody who had secrets. Instead of a comfortable atmosphere of trust there would be a nagging insecurity, like a corrosive crust, eating away at the f...
She found herself looking down on the top of Teenie's head; at a small woollen bobble, in fact, which topped a curious tea-cosy style knitted cap which she was wearing. She looked more closely at it,...
Nobody dared in those days to question such bullies, and the freedom that is more normal these days has come too late for these victims. Auden would have helped, because the whole message of his life...
Modern people always appeared to be rushing about doing things, having no time, it seemed, for looking at the sky,
It evokes so powerfully what we all must have felt as children—the conviction that things are better elsewhere if only we could get there. The powerlessness of the child is what makes that so poignant...
Especially when it came to his triumphant denunciations of his political enemies, each of whom, she suspected, were only too relieved that it was him rather than they who had been caught. She
But to the north there was a bank of cirro-cumulus, a mackerel sky, or Schaefchenwolken—sheep cloud—as she remembered her father calling it. For some reason he had used German when talking about cloud...
Been able to find out what the really big questions are.
Acknowledge the unexpected exchange of fellow feeling between
[...]there was always a part of the human mind that was prepared to entertain such notions, particularly at night, in the world of shadows, when there were sounds that one could not understand and whe...
You're right. Many nurses nowadays don't like doing the things that nurses used to have to do. Changing sheets and collecting bedpans - that sort of thing. Nursing has moved on, Bertie.'Bertie was puz...
You simply could not help everybody; but you could at least help those who came into your life.