It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to be passionately embraced by Peter, I should dream of dentists or gardening. I wonder what unspeakable depths of awfulness can only be expressed by the polite symbol of Peter's embraces?

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.

She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.

But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.

There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.

Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.