They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.
I think with my right hand.
I really can't stand any more to pay for a burst of animation when someone comes in for drinks with a depressed and low-keyed next day, in which I have to go around on my hands and knees.
Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.
Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in.
It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.