What do you mean by sound government?'
There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.
The essential self is fixed well before the thirteenth birthday. It may be influenced by experience but it is seldom changed.
Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.
Benton had a strong interest in helping to ensure that Warren's home life wasn't greatly disturbed: his wife was Cornish, and that morning Warren had arrived with six Cornish pasties of remarkable fla...
Beauty is intellectually confusing; it sabotages common sense.
Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and...
We need, all of us, to be in control of our lives, and we shrink them until they're small and mean enough so that we feel in control.
The television image sanctified, conferred identity. The more familiar the face, the more to be trusted.
Guilt is more commonly felt by the innocent than by the culpable,
People should make up their minds whether to live or to die and do one or the other with the least inconvenience to others.
I love you, Guy, and I think I shall go on loving you, but I’m not in love. I’ve had that and it was a torment, a humiliation and a warning. So now I’m settling for a quiet life with someone I respect...
He began drinking heavily and lived in a way which a friend described as making sense only if he had no expectations of being alive much beyond Thursday.
Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.
When secrets are unspoken and unwritten they are lodged safely in the mind, but writing them down seems to let them loose and give them the power to spread like pollen on the air and enter into other...
What about his style? asked Dalgliesh who was beginning to think that his reading had been unnecessarily restricted.Turgid but grammatical. And, in these days, when every illiterate debutante thinks s...
Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.
Neighbors whose jealousy of such a triumph exceeded any satisfaction in the prospect of the union were able to console themselves by averring that Mr Darcy's pride and his wife's caustic wit would ens...
It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is capable of developing and supporting intelligent life. But we shall not get to them and they will not c...
It is interesting how often unintelligent, even stupid, women manage their emotional lives more satisfactorily than do their cleverer sisters.