“Marriage, I have always held, is a serious affair, to be entered into only after long deliberation and forethought, and suitability of tastes and inclinations is the most important consideration.”

“One must have consideration for those less gifted than oneself.”

“I think somebody deliberately wanted to frighten her.”

“A slightly uncommon condition of the some-long-word. Nothing at all serious, but it just needs putting right. A simple treatment.”

“The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.”

“I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced”

“Heather Badcock meant no harm. She never did mean harm, but there is no doubt that people like Heather Badcock (and like my old friend Alison Wilde), are capable of doing a lot of harm because they lack - not kindness, they have kindness - but any real consideration for the way their actions may affect other people. She though always of what an action meant to her, never sparing a thought to what it might mean to somebody else.”