"A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit."

"Well, of course, people are only human," said Dudley to his brother, as they walked to the house behind the women. "B…"

"As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots."

"Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth," said his cousin. "But we seem to have no other."

"Pushing forty? She's clinging on to it for dear life!"

"Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down."

"In the age of the concentration camp, when from 1935 to 1947 or so, she wrote her very best novels, no writer did mor…"

"The most original novelist now writing in English."

"Un des plus grands romanciers que l'Angleterre ait jamais eus. ("One of the greatest novelists that England has ever …"

"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…"