Цитаты из книги The Salterton Trilogy

So many people get gloomy as they grow older.

“English is not a language of quantities, like Latin,” he said, over and over again, “but a language of strong and weak stresses. A faulty stress destroys the meaning and flavour of a word, and distorts the quality of a line of verse."

No man should ever assume that he will be able to get the immediate and undivided attention of a woman who has children.

Mrs Bridgetower also lay awake, and her heart yearned toward her son. He was all that she had in life. All -- save a large house and nearly half a million dollars, very shrewdly invested.

Miss Vyner was looking for a fight. She was a lady with a large stock of discontent and disapproval always on hand, which she could apply to any question which presented itself.

And, worst of all, he sometimes refused to be serious when dealing with people who were angry. It was this characteristic of the Dean's which especially annoyed Mr Matthew Snelgrove, who was often angry and who liked people to share his anger or tremble at it. A surprising amount of Mr Snelgrove's time was spent in trying to make the Dean be serious when the Dean wanted to be urbane.

Mr Shillito loved to watch people reading what he had written, and as he did so he would smile, grunt appreciatively, nod and in other ways indicate enjoyment and admiration until all but the strongest were forced by a kind of spiritual pressure to follow his lead. In his way, the old fellow was a bully; he was so keen in his appreciation of himself and his work that not to join him became a form of discourtesy.

Under stress, you know, Jimmy, people sometimes speak wiser than they know.

You have just made the great discovery that behind every symbol there is a reality.

Most hearts of any quality are broken on two or three occasions in a lifetime. They mend, of course, and are often stronger than before, but something of the essence of life is lost at every break.

Married couples should complement each other, and not merely double their losses.

Anything free has an irresistible fascination.

Nothing changes fashion so quickly as Theology.

Well, well; it is our hobbies that keep us young.

There are some decisions which cannot be made on a basis of reason.

If you’re a fool, or if you haven’t any talent, or not enough, it will influence the special way in which you go to the devil.

Everybody has their own kind of snobbery. I suspect you of being an intellectual snob.

"I object very much to being called a cute kid," she replied. "If it is God's will that I should be pretty, I'll be pretty; if I am to be plain, I shall be plain without complaint. But come what will, I shall never be vulgar. Only vulgar people are cute kids."