People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own..

We are always children to our mothers..

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents..

I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help..

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other..

Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down..

If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me..

It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests..

A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life..

It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant….

Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would write for a few dozen people, and sometimes i….

We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life..

You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said..

We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs..

People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self..

Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it..

Duty is seldom liked either by the doer or the object ... And why should it be? It is not often of advantage to either..

Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it..

It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape..

Real life seems to have no plots..

Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be..