Pamela Hansford Johnson

“A strong sense of inferiority is not worn on the sleeve, you know. It’s tucked away in the heart, and the last person to know it is the one who’s got it.”

“The belief in the magical power of a word is not a peculiarity of the savage.”

“It is a great mistake to confuse veneration with love.”

“To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.”

“He had a word, too, for the new paganism, the new cult of the first person, the worship of the single self.”

“Nobody can be more clownish, more clumsy and sententiously in bad taste than a man who has spent his life in the museums and is convinced that he has learned a great deal about women.”

“One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he is a good man to his own women.”

“There are few things more wearisome in a fairly dull world than studied originality.”