That shows how impossible it is to be a woman. One's whole life depends on one's looks but one mayn't speak of one's own beauty - Rebecca West

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

The moment ached, as if music were being played somewhere on an instrument whose strings had some connexion with her heart.

Now King Alexander is driving down the familiar streets, curiously unguarded, in a curiously antique car. It can be seen from his attempt to make his stiff hand supple, from a careless flash of his careful black eyes, it can be seen that he is taking the cheers of the crowd with a childish seriousness. It is touching, like a girl putting full faith in the compliments that are paid to her at a ball.