Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong.

He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most.

Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.

Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.

One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding.