I've always felt that English women had to be approached in a sisterly manner, rather than an erotic manner.

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones...you are invited!

A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.

Elgar is not manic enough to be Russian, not witty or pointilliste enough to be French, not harmonically simple enough to be Italian and not stodgy enough to be German. We arrive at his Englishry by pure elimination.

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.

Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?