The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin.

The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.