Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.

Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.

Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.