It was a dull day for English readers (I think) when the description of the person was first considered unnecessary. We rarely get it now. - E. V. Lucas

It is all to the good that insignificant-looking persons should do great things, but human nature will ever resent it. We are such determined idealists, we have such a passion for symmetry, that our first wish will always be that handsome does and handsome is shall be one.

"What is it like in the air?" I once asked him.
"Ripping," he said.
"But the sensations?” I continued. “How do you feel?"
"Ripping," he said.
"And what does the world look like down below as you rush along?"
"Ripping," he said.

When it comes to analysing the pleasures of life, the privilege of approving and disapproving in conversation must be ranked very high, and reading aloud makes it so very harmless an amusement, since no talebearing is involved.