I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him for a wedding present, he thanked them for thanking him and there was no end to the exchange but death.

We possess nothing certainly except the past