Occupation: Novelist Birth: July 8, 1898 Death: September 3, 1981
You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person..
To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven..
By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank..
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of ….
It is the thing that is most remote from the world in which we ourselves live that attracts us most. We are under the spell of what is distant from u….
We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on a front. He may know more than we do, b….
There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns ….
The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him..
London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member..