There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm

Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.

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.

On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one of the less cheerful German highbrow films.

Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.

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

The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style