You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color

Adventure must start with running away from home.

The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin.

We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution.

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social.