If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper.

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.

that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.