[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.

- Pamela Frankau

the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.

- Pamela Frankau

I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides.

- Pamela Frankau

Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders.

- Pamela Frankau