If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better c...
I was like a little boy showing off my toys, desperate to win approval.
Good. I do dislike discussing wine longer than I need.
By 1803, therefore, Mrs Bennet could be regarded as a happy woman so far as her nature allowed and had even been known to sit through a four-course dinner in the presence of Sir William and Lady Lucas...
You won't get love from a child if you don't give love.
Theo awoke to a weight of vague unease, not heavy enough to be called anxiety, but a mild unfocused depression, like the last tatters of an unremembered but disagreeable dream.
The truth was sometimes more fatal than a lie.
She had quickly learned that to show unhappiness was to risk the loss of love.
It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.
If the screams of all earth's living creatures were one scream of pain, surely it would shake the stars.
I don’t think He bargains.Oh yes He does. I may not be religious but I know my Bible. My mother saw to that. He bargains all right. But He’s supposed to he just. If He wants belief He’d better provide...
I can still picture the two sisters sitting together on the terrace, well wrapped up against the chill, one with her terminal cancer, the other with her cardiac asthma and arthritis, envy and resentme...
Reinforced my initial prejudice against what, with the intolerance of youth, I thought of as a type.
Had found it difficult to sleep since my husband had been killed, and now I lay rigid under the canopy of the four-poster re-living the extraordinary day, piecing together the anomalies, the small inc...
Dresses, some of the girls in clothes which
We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we endured birth. You can’t share either experience.
Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.
Unmarried, solitary, unsociable; why should I expect my writing to be any more successful than my life?
There are few activities so agreeable as spending a friend's money to your own satisfaction and his benefit.
There are facts. There are suppositions. There are beliefs. Learn to keep them separate, Sergeant. All men die. Fact. Death may not be the end. Supposition. There’s pie in the sky when you die. Belief...