No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.

People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.

The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.

William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.

In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities.

The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin to discern.