Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.

...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.

I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable.

Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven.

An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.