Compton Mackenzie

"Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen."

"You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief – and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one."

"He is a master of a particularly fascinating style, at once smooth and various, which gives the quality of poetry to his explication of ordinary things. He has, moreover, some creative power."