oh how television diminishes everything.

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry.

There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are.

Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !