“Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.”

“He was just one of those Englishmen who was always saying silly things to sound less pompous, and pompous things to sound less silly.”

“People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.”

“As Anne watched her, she could not help thinking of the age-old question every woman asks herself at some time or other: do I have to swallow it?”

“It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right. ”

“..."the waiting-room atmosphere in which death was the delayed train...”

“In my rather brief medical practice,' said David modestly, 'I found that people spend their whole lives imagining they are about to die. Their only consolation is that one day they're right.”