Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.

And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.