"Travels with My Aunt" Quotes

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

I felt like a man who, in his sickness, is told by the doctor that he will die unless he undergoes a major operation; he submits to the surgeon's knife although he knows that he may be submitting to his death.

We all do our duty when there's no cost to it. Honor comes easy then. Yet sooner or later in every man's life comes a day when it's not easy... A time when he must choose.

If one wants to see the living heart of Paris, one must come here, to the Rue de la Huchette.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue.

Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations.

I have a theory that it's not the books you start in youth, but the books you finish that count.

Sin is a matter of opinion.

Age doesn't matter, unless one is a cheese.

We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.