"Love so seldom means happiness."

--

Source : Margery Allingham (1959). “Crime and Mr. Campion”

Margery Allingham

“The great danger is that in the confession of any collective sin, one shall confess the sins of others and forget our own.”
“TOPER. Yesterday I carried to wait on a Relation of ours that has a Parrot, and whilst I was discoursing about some private Business, she converted the Bird, and now it talks of nothing but the Light of the Spirit, and the Inward man.”
“The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.”

Source : "A Living Bill of Rights". Book by William O. Douglas, 1961.
“I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horrors of sordid passion, and - if he is lucky enough - know the love of an honest woman.”
“Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.”

Source : James Geary (2008). “Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists”, p.2, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“And check this out: If every American had one meat-free day per week, it would be the same as taking eight million cars off American roads in a year.”
“I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing”
“Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes”

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