"Pamela Hansford Johnson, Baroness Snow" was an English novelist, playwright, poet, literary and social critic.

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I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

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There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like, but never believe he is being on the level with you.

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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

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I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, "Why, I've always thought that but never found the words for it."

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We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.

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