Quotations

"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." Thoreau

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” Einstein

"I'm making such a lot of money from articles - £22 since Xmas so I'm saving it up to be married but Evelyn [Waugh] says 'don't save it, dress better and catch a better man. Evelyn is always so full of common sense.'"
Nancy Mitford writing to Mark Ogilvie-Grant in March 1929

"An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead." Nancy Mitford, Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy (1955)

"To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating." Ronald Firbank.

"The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain." Ronald Firbank.

"Whenever a young child exhibits the symptoms of a neurosis one should not waste too much time examining his unconscious. One should begin one's investigations elsewhere, for almost invariably the parents are either the direct cause of the child's neurosis or the most important element in it." Jung - The Development of Personality

“The Church says: the body is a sin.
Science says: the body is a machine.
Advertising says: The body is a business.
The Body says: I am a fiesta.”
Eduardo Galeano, Walking Words