The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.
Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.
The male - I have found - is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.
Youve simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether theyll be there tomorrow, do you?
it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself.
I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.
Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.
Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.
And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.
You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they'll say about you in the future.