“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”

“Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.”

“To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling.”

“...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature.”

“This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.”

“There's too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste.”

“They pointed out that the friendship between the two artistes had always been a by-word or whatever you called it. A well-read Egg summed it up by saying they were like Thingummy and what's-his-name”