“If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being …” — Evelyn Waugh

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.