The Worst Of Failure Of This Kind

The Maddest Phenomenon In This Wholly Mad World – That The Filming Or Wirelessing Of An Event, Whether It Is The Grand National Or An Attack In Force On The Maginot Line, Is Held To Be Of More Importance Than The Event Itself.

All I Want Is A Modest Place In Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, And That New Edition Of One Thousand Best Bits Of Recent Prose.

Your Englishman, Confronted By Something Abnormal Will Always Pretend That It Isn't There. If, However, You Force Him To Look Into It, He'll At Once Pretend That He Sees The Object Not For What It Is But For Something That He Would Like It To Be.

Shaw's Plays Are The Price We Pay For Shaw's Prefaces.

New Year's Resolution: To Tolerate Fools More Gladly, Provided This Does Not Encourage Them To Take Up More Of My Time.