Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vivi…

- E.F. Benson

Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic.

- E.F. Benson

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

- E.F. Benson

There's many things in this world that will depress you, and make you good for nothing, if you take them seriously, and that cheer you up if you don'…

- E.F. Benson

The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other.

- E.F. Benson

An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.

- E.F. Benson

...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on the shore c…

- E.F. Benson