If life weren't so short it would be worth people's while to do more to put the world to rights. - John Wyndham

She had an exasperating feeling that there was a principle somewhere that she had missed; a principle which once grasped would make the whole thing as clear as daylight. But if there was it continued to elude her.

There's a type of woman who isn't content until she's made herself some man's slave and doormat—put herself completely in his power.

In spite of what they say, two can't live as cheap as one. And wives hanker after certain standards, and ought to have them - within reason, of course.