“The foundations of Empire are often occasions of woe; their dismemberment, always.”

“She had the resigned indifference of extreme old age. Buildings and empires rose and fell. It snowed. It stopped snowing. People came and went. One day death would come for her, and she would not find that surprising either, and she would not care -”

“Quod volimus credimus libenterwe always believe what we want to believe”

“The natural impulse of men is to follow, he thought, and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate the rest.”

“By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.”

“You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.”

“Kelso's hangover had gone, to be replaced by that familiar phase of post-alcoholic euphoria - always in the past, his most productive time of day - a feeling that alone was enough to make getting drunk worthwhile.”