The Affair Quotes

“She had heard me say, often enough, that choices never took as long to make as we pretend: the time was taken in finding the reasons to justify them.”
― C.P. Snow, The Affair

“I have done a certain amount of service for this college, most of it quite undistinguished, in a misspent lifetime. But the one service I will not do for this college is expose myself to the conversation of M H L Gay. It was jejune at the best of times. And now that what by courtesy one refers to as his mind appears to have given up the very unequal struggle, I find it bizarre but not rewarding.”
― C.P. Snow, The Affair

“him, Francis was a living provocation. He was too scrupulous, too virtuous: he was too conscientious,”
― C.P. Snow, The Affair