All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.

Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.

Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that.

Men never believe a woman can do anything.

It is most oppressive to be an aunt.

I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.

Women are outside the law; they make nothing, they say yes or no to some collections of whereases.