"With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is t..."
- Elizabeth Bowen
"Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself-in fact till it does that it hardly is experience."
"Autumn arrives in the early morning but spring at the close of a winter's day."
"In big houses in which things are done properly there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work."