Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.

Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.

Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.

Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.

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.

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