Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.

We keep our insignificant blemishes so that we can blame them for our larger defects.

I think it was Harry Walpole who remarked, "In this life one should try everything once except incest and country dancing.

[his healing skills] ..lay in the ability to comfort, to comfort in the proper sense, to make strong, to fortify

Feelings are not something to which one does or does not have rights.

I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to carry about with me, irrespective of place and people, because I have never joined in.

Late, Fry?’ ‘Really, sir? So am I.’ ‘Don’t try to be clever, boy.’ ‘Very good, sir. How stupid would you like me to be? Very stupid or only slightly stupid?

I also knew that he was the kind of anile little runt who, in foyers and theatre bars the West End over, can be heard bleating into their gin and tonics, "I go to the theatre to be entertained.

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