Of course it's all right for librarians to smell of drink.

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out.

Oh, this coming back to an empty house,' Rupert thought, when he had seen her safely up to her door. People - though perhaps it was only women - seemed to make so much of it. As if life itself were not as empty as the house one was coming back to.

I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it.

There are no sick people in North Oxford. They are either dead or alive. It's sometimes difficult to tell the difference, that's all.

There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual.