"Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill-though not the will to kill."

"I like to be accurate. I like to be precise. I like to be correct."

"There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ou…"

"To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never reall…"

"The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask."