`What great cause is he identified with?' `He's identified . . . with the great cause of cheering us all up.' |
`Ye can call it influenza if ye like,' said Mrs Machin. `There was no influenza in my young days. We called a cold a cold.' |
A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it. |
A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected. |
A sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities - is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry |
All wrong-doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do |
Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened. |
Anthology construction is one of the pleasantest hobbies that a person who is not mad about golf and bridge - that is to say, a thinking person - can possibly have |
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. |
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. |
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot. |
Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it. |
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man. |
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. |
Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time |