A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit. - Ivy Compton-Burnett

Time has too much credit," said Bridget. "I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth," said his cousin. "But we seem to have no other.

In the age of the concentration camp, when from 1935 to 1947 or so, she wrote her very best novels, no writer did more to illumine the springs of human cruelty, suffering and bravery.