David Allsopp

“He remarked as much to Charlotte on his return, and she was inclined to agree with him. 'As life draws us along,' she replied, 'we think we are acting of our own volition, ourselves choosing what we shall do and what we shall enjoy; but when we look more closely we see they are only the intentions and inclinations of the age which we are being compelled to comply with.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities

“Father is and always has been a cross between Attila the Hun and a snapping-turtle.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Aunts Aren't Gentlemen: (Jeeves & Wooster)

“Too close. If we live in too close proximity to a person, it is as if we kept touching a good etching with our bare fingers; one day we have poor, dirty paper in our hands and nothing more. a human being's soul is likewise worn down by continual touching; at least it finally appears that way to us - we never see its original design and beauty again.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Aphorisms on Love and Hate

“If you ask my Aunt Agatha she will tell you — in fact, she is quite likely to tell you even if you don’t ask her — that I am a vapid and irreflective chump. Barely sentient, was the way she once described me: and I’m not saying that in a broad, general sense she isn’t right.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!