I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.

The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.

I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism of being both writer and musician. No wonder that selfish beast Wagner kept it all to himself.

Oh, I am all for singing. If I had had children I should have hounded them into choirs & choral societies, and if they weren't good enough for that, I would have sent them out, to sing in the streets.

Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.

Can you suggest any suitable aspersions to spread abroad about Mrs. Thatcher? It is idle to suggest she has unnatural relations with Mrs. Barbara Castle; what is needed is something socially lower: that she eats asparagus with knife and fork, or serves instant mash potatoes.

When I die, I hope to think I have annoyed a great many people.