A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn’t have been more surprised and pleased...

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man...

From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor’s mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.

Every time I think I’ve touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.

Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone...

Father’s snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people’s characters.

It is impossible to betray another man’s child – for whatever reason – without also betraying one’s own. To do less than justice to another man’s child, no matter who that man is, is to impair by that much the chances one’s own children have for a life of meaning and purpose.

Englishwomen’s shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any...

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.