Quotes from Margaret Kennedy

... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.

It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.

It's better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.

W]hen she was dying she asked me to promise never to leave Father. I couldn't refuse. It was the last thing she said. She was worried over what would happen to him. So you see!' 'How could she condemn you to such a life?' 'Well, you see, she had a rather gloomy idea of life. She thought we are all born to suffer and the more we suffer now the less we shall hereafter. She thought it was wrong to be happy. I expect she worked all that out because she was married to Father.' (116)

A child's questions ought always to be answered honestly and sincerely or else it gets a compress.' 'Complex. I am answering you honestly.' 'Am I a bastard?' Sir Henry was startled, but after a moment's thought said, 'Yes. But that's not a word you should use. Where did you learn it?' 'Shakespeare.

Each guest had retired, as an animal retires with a bone to the back of its cage, to chew over some single obsession.

MYSELF: You have never understood. My integrity means more to me than happiness. CHRISTINA: You have none. There is no such thing. You are not a whole person. Nobody is. We are members one of another. An arm has no integrity if it is amputated. It is nothing unless it is part of a body, with a heart to pump the blood through it and a brain to guide it. You have no more integrity than a severed arm might have.