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- I'd the upbringing a nun would envy and that's the truth. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.
- Joe Orton (1933 - 1967), Entertaining Mr Sloane (1964)
- I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.
- William Congreve (1670 - 1729), Love for Love (1695)
- The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
- Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939), The Future of an Illusion (1927)
- Unless you believe, you will not understand.
- Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD), De Libero Arbitrio
- The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939), Impressions and Comments (1914)
- It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
- William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954), Outspoken Essays (1919)
- Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), Women and Liberty
- We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
- Alan Bennett, Getting On (1972)
- It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.
- Christopher Hampton, Treats (1976), Scene IV
- To be an adult is to be alone.
- Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977), Thoughts of a biologist (1939)
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