Of course it's all right for librarians to smell of drink..

I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it..

I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced..

What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out..

It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one'….

There are no sick people in North Oxford. They are either dead or alive. It's sometimes difficult to tell the difference, that's all..

The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one..

I imagine the proverb about too many cooks spoiling the broth can be applied to writing as well as anything else. The poetical or literary broth is b….

My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream of consciousness' type and deal with a….

Oh, but it was splendid the things women were doing for men all the time, thought Jane. Making them feel, perhaps sometimes by no more than a casual ….

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels..

Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other..

Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the heavy teapot. Did we really need a cup of tea? ….

Oh, this coming back to an empty house,' Rupert thought, when he had seen her safely up to her door. People - though perhaps it was only women - seem….

I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with a teapot in my hand on every dramatic ….

There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we long to know about them..

You know Mildred would never do anything wrong or foolish. I reflected a little sadly that this was only too true and hoped I did not appear too much….

Perhaps I need some shattering experience to awaken and inspire me, or at least to give me some emotion to recollect in tranquility. But how to get i….

There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual..

Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there..

[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to burst out l….