Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
There are occasions when I would rather feel like a fly than a spider.
They had nothing in common but the English language.
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.