"Her voice was completely English. For some reason I had expected a foreign accent; but I could place this exactly. It…"

"There are only two races on this planet — the intelligent and the stupid."

"When she was home from her boarding-school I used to see her almost every day sometimes, because their house was righ…"

"Well, then there was the bit in the local paper about the scholarship she’d won and how clever she was, and her name …"

"I know what I am to him. A butterfly he has always wanted to catch. I remember (the very first time I met him) G.P. s…"

"He’s so slow, so unimaginative, so lifeless. Like zinc white. I see it’s a sort of tyranny he has over me. He forces …"

"Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don’t care."

"Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want."

"Though not large it had a certain elegance; a pilastered portico, windows with graceful pediments. The whitewashed fa…"

"I saw that I was from now on, for ever, contemptible. I had been and remained, intensely depressed, but I had also be…"