Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot

You don't remove the evil in a person by killing the person.

Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.

The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...

Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.

You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.