Sun, silence, and happiness.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

Spring came late, but when it came it was hand-in-hand with summer, and almost at once everything was baking and warm, and in the villages the people danced every night on concrete dancing floors under the plane trees.

If I had a girl I should say to her, 'Marry for love if you can, it won't last, but it is a very interesting experience and makes a good beginning in life. Later on, when you marry for money, for heaven's sake let it be big money. There are no other possible reasons for marrying at all.

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

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

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