“He's always said if you wish to die rich, invest in vice.”
“Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that what the virtue of wit contained was the vice of scorn.”
“The first one is always the hardest," he said."The first?""The first one you love who dies," he said. "It gets easier, after.”
“Ha!' said the tall man drily. 'He was in high luck. Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply.”
“He's rich. Rich boys are always handsome.”
“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”