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.

It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a charm to any character, and so our struggle with them dies away.

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.

art is the pulse of a nation.

I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing

each generation has something different at which they are all looking.