Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

We can't tell our life from our wish