Ivy Compton-Burnett

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

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

Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.

Time 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.