Geoffrey Household Quotes

None of my mental activities for the past twenty-four hours might be called thinking. I had allowed my body to take charge. It knew far more about escaping and healing than I did.

I have always been sure that if England were ever occupied its people would find the organization of underground cells an almost effortless means of self-expression.

The only periods, I suspect, when a man feels captain of his soul are those when he has not the slightest need of such an organ.

Love's only business is to preserve the race, not the individual.

I distrust patriotism; the reasonable man can find little in these days that is worth dying for. But dying against - there's enough iniquity in Europe to carry the most urbane or decadent into battle.

I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food - which they take for granted - but his or her entertainment value. Asmodeus took to his toy enthusiastically. In another week he permitted me to stroke him, producing a raucous purr, but, in order to save his face, pretending to be asleep.

One does not, I think, kill oneself without a definite desire to do so. It is hardly ever an act to which a man must key himself up; it is a temptation which he must struggle against.

He who has learned not to intrude his emotions upon his fellows has also learned not to intrude them upon himself.