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It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

The altar must be built in one place so that the fire may come down in another place.

Would you rather be more abominable than you sound or sound more abominable than you are? The answer is I would rather be neither but I am both.

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men.

The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.

I generally give the title-page a fair chance," Roger said. "Once can't always judge books merely by the cover.

Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it.

What's the matter with you, Madox? You got a grudge against the world?

It'll do you all the good in the world, Giles, to be a little uncertain of yourself".

If the redeemed sing, presumably someone must write the songs.

Sir Joshua Reynolds, said Jonathan, once alluded to 'common observation and a plain understanding' as the source of all art.

You can take care of everything except chance. Chance can kill you.

Pardon,Periel, like Love, is only ours for fun: essentially we don't and can't.

Over the white curve he had looked into incredible space; abysses of intelligence lay beyond it.

Harry," she said, her voice a little thick with the whisky. "You found the way, didn't you?" What's so wonderful about it? I thought. Dogs do.

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

Our crucifixes exhibit the pain, but they veil, perhaps necessarily, the obscenity: but the death of the God-Man was both.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

Her mouth was soft and moist, and she came to me like a dachshund jumping into your lap.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

[ ... ] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting.

They're beautiful hands," he said; "though they've ruined the world, they're beautiful hands.

Nothing was certain, but everything was safe - that was part of the mystery of Love.

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

She sat the sister of Arthur, the wife of Lot
four sons got by him, and one not.

Hell is indefinite.

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been.

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

Let us have all the delights of which we are capable.

How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?

Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.

And jewels and words are no less and no more necessary than cotton and silence.

Why isn't one taught how to be loved? Why isn't one taught anything?