Mrs Porter, you see before you the product of an outmoded educational system, which is based upon beating Latin and Greek into a boy’s mind before he has a chance to meet the penny-dreadful.
Youth does not inspire confidence, in life or in stories,
My God...it can think.
Light had dawned in the utter darkness.
I took to the...Library as to a lover...
I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books.
I have never found ‘luck’ a dependable companion
I am watching bees.
Everyone is allowed a weakness, even women of the twentieth century.
Do to have
Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief?
When ambitious men overcome a dynasty and seize power, they inevitably adopt most of the ways of their predecessors. —THE Muqaddimah OF IBN KHALDÛN
To continue with the analogy, my perspective, my brush technique, my use of colour and shade, are all entirely different from his. The subject is essentially the same; it is the eyes and the hands of...
The water stretched out as far as the eye could see in an expanse of gentle grey-blue swells broken only by the occasional white-capped wavelet and the line of the ship’s passage, unrolling die-straig...
THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY I came up to in 1917 was a shadow of her normal, self-assured self, its population a tenth of that in 1914 before the war, a number lower even than in the years following the Bla...
I felt instantly at home, and wanted only to dismiss Alistair, along with the rest of Justice Hall, that I might have a closer look at the shelves.I had to content myself instead with a strolling peru...
But having an entire policy of ‘Us Good, Them Bad’ does little more than create a magnet for trouble-makers.
The house was still, weighty with the comfort of a thousand books.
Pray tell, she said, although her voice told him not to.He ignored her tone, let out a thoughtful cloud of smoke, and said, ...
One must never disregard a message from the universe.