Angus Wilson

Gerald Middleton was a man of mildly but persistently depressive temperament. Such men are not at their best at breakfast, nor is the week before Christmas their happiest time.

Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.

You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get

'Youth is the time for loving, so poets always say.