It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.

You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

After two wars, I have been in danger too often to bother very much about being killed, and when it comes, I would prefer that it should happen in an aeroplane, since aeroplanes have been the best part of my life.

I never was in such a horrid office . . . It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long, is it?

She lived in the dream world of unreality, or else she would not admit reality; he did not know. In any case, he loved her as she was. It might never be used, but it would give her pleasure to have it.

Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.