A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.

I am I because my little dog knows me.

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.