Pamela Hansford Johnson

“Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.”

“You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.”

“I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.”

“We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.”

“The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.”

“Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.”