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.

A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

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.

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

You have to know what you want to get it.