Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!

I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.