Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.

- E. M. Delafield

The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who a…

- E. M. Delafield

Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.

- E. M. Delafield

Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?

- E. M. Delafield

There is a certain strong sense of inner conviction that strikes, with a pang as that of birth, through the very soul, and which is experienced but o…

- E. M. Delafield

People in England who do not like gardening are very few, and of the few there are, many do not own to it, knowing that they might just as well own t…

- E. M. Delafield

A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance, and…

- E. M. Delafield

She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost…

- E. M. Delafield

Am sorry to note that abuse and condemnation of a common acquaintance often constitutes very strong bond of union between otherwise uncongenial spiri…

- E. M. Delafield