But to what end? Some... future revolution? It can never succeed. As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.

— David Mitchell

But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.

— David Mitchell

Coffee’s the elixir of life.

— David Mitchell

Cynicism can blind one to subtler virtues

— David Mitchell

Disci are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips the disco over, you look a sad sad do if you don't.

— David Mitchell

Don't worry, all is well. All is so perfectly, damnably well.

— David Mitchell

Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't do.

— David Mitchell

Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk awhile with the still are.

— David Mitchell

Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level.

— David Mitchell

& everywhere he observed that casual brutality lighter races show the darker.

— David Mitchell