E. F. Benson Quotes

...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere els...

Now Miss Mapp's social dictatorship among the ladies of Tilling had long been paramount, but every n...

There is a certain amount which I shan't mention publicly," Elizabeth said. "Things about Lucia whic...

This was all splendid stuff for Luciaphils; it was amazing how at a first glance she recognised ever...

This little colloquy in Adele's box was really the foundation of the secret society of the Luciaphil...

Georgie, I've got it," she said. "I've guessed what it means."Now though Georgie was devoted to his ...

She paused a moment."Pepino, shall I tell all our dear friends our little secret?" she said. "If you...

Marcia was silent a moment. Then a sort of softer gleam came into her angry eye."Tell me some more a...

On the doorstep Adele met Tony Limpsfield. She hurried him into her motor, and told the chauffeur no...

She was a gardener of the ruthless type, and went for any small green thing that incautiously showed...

It was getting very clear then (and during this week Riseholme naturally thought of nothing else) th...

She's been, but she's coming back," he said. "I expect her every minute. Ah! there she is."This was ...

The news that she had gone of course now spread rapidly, and by lunch time Riseholme had made up its...

Or do you like being frightened?”Hugh, though generally intelligent, is dense in certain ways; this ...

The narrator, I think, must succeed in frightening himself before he can think of frightening his re...

All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possesse...

I wonder why he hastened to tell us that George Hearne was buried in the churchyard, and then added ...

The subject dropped, and we sat on in the dusk that was rapidly deepening into night. The door into ...

Hermy, when she was not otter-hunting, could be very sarcastic, and he had a clear month of Hermy in...

Philosophers have argued about the strongest emotion known to man. Some say ‘love’, others ‘hate’, o...

The functions of the human frame are, broadly speaking, known. They are a country, anyhow, that has ...

Ah, this delicious night air,' she said, luxuriously sniffing in the coolness. 'Night air and garden...

Miss Mapp moved towards the screen."What a delicious big screen," she said."Yes, but don't go behind...

Luck ever attends the bold and constructive thinker: the apple, for instance, fell from the tree pre...

Miss Mackintosh waved her arms wildly."Oh, please stop, and let me guess," she cried. "I shall go cr...