You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go flopping along. By doing this he helps us to question and reassess our past, present and future situations, our assumptions and our options.

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

...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?

'I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house' she said.

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