I had been there before; I knew all about it.
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
All fates are ‘worse than death’.
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.