The English don't have opinions about the Irish. They have prejudices. - Susan Howatch

What a bloody jungle income tax is! It's a wonder we don't all go on strike and refuse to pay.

More tears. Disgraceful. I was getting just like Kester, weeping at the drop of a hat, but of course I was Kester. I'd become him, and now there was just this other stranger who wrote me debonair notes and who sounded just like me.

A rational disposition must necessarily preclude a romantic outlook in life, and only the failures of this world can afford to dispense with a rational disposition.