There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm

Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit.

A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'.

Women are all alike - aye fussin' over their fal-lals and bedazin' a man's eyes, when all they really want is man's blood and his heart out of his body and his soul and his pride.

Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.

She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.

He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might have suspected mockery.