Here is one of the points about this planet which should be remembered; into every penetrable corner of it, and into most of the impenetrable corners, the English will penetrate. They are like that; born invaders. They cannot stay at home.

When I have eaten mangoes, I have felt like Eve.

It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.

Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it.

Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.