Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.

Sun, silence, and happiness.

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

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.

Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?

When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.

Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.