“Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.”

“You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.”

“My dear, I could hardly keep still in my chair. I wanted to dash out of the house and leap in a taxi and say, "Take me to Charles's unhealthy pictures." Well, I went, but the gallery after luncheon was so full of absurd women in the sort of hats they should be made to eat, that I rested a little--I rested here with Cyril and Tom and these saucy boys. Then I came back at the unfashionable time of five o'clock, all agog, my dear; and what did I find? I found, my dear, a very naughty and very successful practical joke. It reminded me of dear Sebastian when he liked so much to dress up in false whiskers. It was charm again, my dear, simple, creamy English charm, playing tigers.”

“It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.”

“If only people realized Corbusier is pure nineteenth century, Manchester school utilitarian, and that's why they like him.”

“You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them”

“I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.”