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Life becomes almost interesting once one has learned to recognize people's lies, and one starts to enjoy the comedy as people keep saying things other than they think and really want..

... their bond of friendship, fragile and complex in the way of all significant relationships between people

... in an attempt to escape lonliness, people are only to happy to involve themselves in confidences that they will later regret

...a lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written.

He had arranged for a selection of alcohol, sort of like an uneducated man ordering a library.

...as if her entire life were nothing but pushing things off to a time that was always coming, but never arrived.

The difficulty arises only in gauging the way others are going to act. They always act a bit more stupidly than one would have acted oneself. Nonetheless it usually turns out to have been the wiser action.

What’s past is past, and for that very reason it’s also irrevocable. One can at least attempt to correct what is or what will be. But the past is completely unalterable. It becomes, and remains – in a certain sense – a painful part of the present.

If people were merely dependent on their ability to comprehend things, they would obviously not even reach the age at which it would be possible for them to put that comprehension to use.

We know how prone the strong are to suspect the weakness of the weak,—as the weak are to be disgusted by the strength of the strong.

...she dwelt on the sin of an empty life, which always seems so much more scandalous in the country, where people rise early to see if a new strawberry has happened during the night.

...they never understood Reginald, who came down late to breakfast, and nibbled toast, and said disrespectful things about the universe.  The family ate porridge, and believed in everything, even the weather forecast.

When there are two of you, you can laugh at a good many things which would make you cry on your own.

Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will never really materialise?

Curzon checked himself at last when he suddenly realized how fluently he was talking. It was lawyer-like and un-English to be eloquent...

No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Mary, you know I hate parties. My idea of hell is a very large party in a cold room...

But how people have got on is actually only interesting to the country which has got on. What foreign visitors care about are the things that were there before they began to get on.