The Knives Of Jealousy Are Honed On

Some Say Life Is The Thing, But I Prefer Reading.

The English, Although Partakers In The Most Variable And Quixotic Climate In The World, Never Become Used To Its Vagaries, But Comment Upon Them With Shock And Resentment As If All Their Lives Had Been Spent In The Predictable Monsoon.

We Dislike Those We've Injured.

When One Has Children One Has No Privacy. They Take It For Granted That What Is Yours Is Theirs, Personal Things And The Secrets Of Your Heart, As Well As Possessions.

We No More Forget The Faces Of Our Enemies Than Of Those We Love.