What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.

He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.

I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.

There's truth as far as you knows it; and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.