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View Quote All day the head had been barely supportable but at evening a breeze arose in the West, blowing from the heart of the setting sun and from the ocean, which lay unseen, unheard behind the scrubby foothills. It shook the rusty fringes of palm-leaf and swelled the dry sounds of summer, the frog-voices, the grating cicadas, and the ever present pulse of music from the neighbouring native huts. The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy (1948) First lines

View Quote If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the difference. Clive James, in Glued to the Box (1983), p. 233

View Quote Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them. The Tablet (9 May 1951)

View Quote I put the words down and push them a bit. As quoted in his obituary in The New York Times (11 April 1966)

View Quote All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day. Vile Bodies (1930)

View Quote My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

View Quote Of children as of procreation— the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.

View Quote If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.

View Quote Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

View Quote Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

View Quote Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

View Quote Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

View Quote I put the words down and push them a bit.

View Quote What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

View Quote What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them.