Olivia Manning

"'She’s just a typical bourgeois reactionary.’ ‘You mean, her prejudices are different from yours.'"

"An age of chivalry as outmoded as honour, as obsolete as truth."

"War meant a perpetual postponement of life, yet one did not cease to grow old."

"This was a world in which only the ignorant could be happy."

"Ignorance breeds fear. Tell people the truth. Trust them to keep their heads."