It's a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves are capable of true love, which is a talent like any other, only far more rare.

oh how television diminishes everything.

Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.

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

I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

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

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