Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.

Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.