“ Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape. Angus Wilson
“ I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white… Angus Wilson
“ You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get Angus Wilson
“ Gerald Middleton was a man of mildly but persistently depressive temperament. Such men are not at their best at breakfast, nor is the week before Christmas their happiest time. Angus Wilson