I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.

She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.

..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.