"An Oxford man walks down the street and thinks that he owns it, a Cambridge man walks down the street and doesn't giv…"

"It was always the same in my experience, the greatest libertines make the most suspicious fathers, and show me a moth…"

"The crowd pressed round the dais and the band broke into the national anthem. 'Broke into' was the wrong expression. …"

"One day, thought Stone, there will be a war and when you get to the front you will last five minutes before someone p…"

"The moneylender and his wife," he said indifferently, jerking his head over his shoulder. "It is always the same in a…"

"I'd like to impregnate her with a warm smile, listen to my children call her "mummy", be a comfort to her in her old …"

"Everyone was mad only some of them didn't know it."

"The trouble is, Richard, that you always think you can alter people. You say, Oh, yes, he's a little weak and I can't…"

"I really am interested but I find it hard to make the proper helpful noises. I'm terrible inadequate when it comes to…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"