Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.

At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.

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

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.

You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice saved, there would be enough there to fill a full lifetime with delight. Venice, with all its complexity and variety, is in itself the greatest surviving work of art in the world.