"Jane: What do you think of his book Arthur? Gideon: I don't think of it. I've had no reason to, particularly. I've no…"

"To the politician we are something of a dark horse. He does not know what we want; he wishes he did. Do we know ourse…"

"The trouble about the fashions is, there are too many going on at once, and you can't follow them all. Sometimes, I t…"

"How fast and how loud foreigners talk ! It is a gift ; the British cannot talk so loud or so fast. They have too many…"

"Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind. ...…"

""Take my camel, dear," said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass."

"Poem me no poems."

"Each wrong act brings with it its own anaesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and …"

"Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty and spinning-looms not because they …"

"The best book she has written, and that is saying a lot."