From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.

I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.

in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is now exerting its very considerable influence to get them to consume.

it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.

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

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.