Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

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

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their racial integrity. Their sons and daughters rarely mate with humankind except their own blood relations.

If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.