Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.

[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story.

I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all the perils and choleras of acquaintance implicit in them; but in London they seem as charming as rabbits.

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.

There is a period in one's life - perhaps not longer than six months - when one lives in two worlds at once ... It is the time when one has freshly learned to read. The Word, till then a denominating aspect of the Thing, has suddenly become detached from it and is perceived as a glittering entity, transparent and unseizable as a jellyfish, yet able to create an independent world that is both more recondite and more instantaneously convincing than the world one knew before.