Places remember events.

British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.

Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties, escaped from home and friends and run away together with wild and radiant hearts to a new adventure.

Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm of literature is the realm of these accidental manners and humours--a spacious realm; and the true literary artist concerns himself mainly with them.

There is only one thing that makes any one athlete better than another, his heart. We all put our underwear on feet first, so we are all human.

This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.