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

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.

There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm

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

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.

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

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