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Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches.

I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour.

I'm bound to say your Cardinal Hinsley did a wonderful job of work on the wireless. You could see he was an Englishman first and a Christian second; that is more than you can say of one or two of our bishops.

you seem to find everything banal. it's a new word whose correct use i have only lately learnt,' said josephine with dignity. 'i find it applies to nearly everything.

It] has been said that the difference between Greek and Israelite religion was that the Greeks worshiped the 'holiness of beauty' whereas the Jews worshiped 'the beauty of holiness.

the whole caravansary had fallen in like a card house at the disapproval in her eyes.

My ex-husband kept saying I need an anger management course, but that's bullshit." "Really." "Yeah, 'really.' I just need a world with fewer people who piss me off.

She's got an indiscreet voice," I remarked. "It's full of–" I hesitated. "Her voice is full of money," he said suddenly. That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money–that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it.

They're a rotten lot, I shouted, across the lawn. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.

It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life—it can be a superabundance of interest...

but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.

It made no difference to me. Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

So my first impression, that he was a person of some undefined consequence, had gradually faded and he had become simply the proprietor of an elaborate road-house next door.

I read somewhere that the sun's getting hotter every year, said Tom genially. It seems that pretty soon the earth's going to fall into the sun--or wait a minute--it's just the opposite--the sun's getting colder every year. 1925

You said a bad driver is only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to make such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person. I thought it was your secret pride.

I'm very damn wet!' he said aloud to the sundial.

It'd be a good setting to jump overboard,' said Dick mildly. 'Wouldn't it?' agreed Nicole hastily. 'Let's borrow life-preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained.

The sea, he thought, had treasured its memories deeper than the faithless land.

It was midsummer, but fresh water from the gasping sprinklers made the lawn glitter like spring.

I hate careless people. That's why I like you.