"Of all noxious animals, too, the most noxious is a tourist. And of all tourists the most vulgar, ill-bred, offensive …"

"The Vicar of St Ives says the smell of fish there is sometimes so terrific as to stop the church clock."

"It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain."

"An angel satyr walks these hills."

"The best picture of quiet vicarage life in Victorian England that has yet been given us."

"He's so bright-eyed it makes one unconscionably glad to be alive."

"He was certainly not a man wrapped up in himself, and perhaps the chief merit of the Diary is that it afford a detail…"

"It gives an extraordinarily sensitive and observant picture of country life in the seventies, mostly of Radnorshire a…"

"I should place his Diary among the best half-dozen or dozen ever written in England. It is the quintessence of Englan…"

"The point about Kilvert is that he was the master of a most exquisite and lovely prose, and the Diary that he kept is…"