It is of course lawful to learn of the Enemy; but is it sensible?
If you only would! He added rather diffidently: If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court of inquiry. It makes it easier for me to report to the general if you say things dully and...
For Mrs. Satterthwaite interested herself - it was the only interest she had - in handsome, thin, and horribly disreputable young men.
By God!’ Christopher exclaimed. ‘I loathe your whole beastly buttered-toast, mutton-chopped, carpet-slippered, rum-negused comfort as much as I loathe your beastly Riviera-palaced, chauffeured, hydrau...
We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist. So, for a time, if such a passion come to fruition, the man will get what he wa...
[W]e are almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite other.
These trenches are like Pompeii, sir.
My dear, it couldn’t have lasted for ever … But you’re a good man. And very clever… . You will get through….
It was business, and business may be presumed to cover quite a lot of bad taste.
Isn't there any heaven where old beautiful dances, old beautiful intimacies prolong themselves?
Edith Ethel with the sweetest possible smile would beg the pillows off a whole hospital ward full of dying…. She
You cannot control your imagination’s pictures. Of
Yes, society must go on; it must breed, like rabbits. That is what we are here for. But then, I don't like society—much.
There won’t be any more parades after this war. There aren’t any now.
Then, Father Consett said, if ye know him so well, Sylvia Satterthwaite, how is it ye can't get on with him better? They say: Tout savoir c'est tout pardonner. It isn't, Sylvia said. To know everythin...
The world is full of places to which I want to return
The rocks would be there a million years after the light went for the last time out.
The repressions of the passionate drive them mad.
The Central Empires represented Roman Catholicism, the Allies Protestantism and Orthodoxy. Let them unite.
She had Authority conferred on her. Metempsychosistically.