"We are on the threshold of a sea change in the agency business."

“One of the goals I've set myself is to make eye contact with everyone in the audience at least once. You can't stop in any one position for too long, and just that physicality, that need for that, it's so all-inclusive.”

Source : Interview with Emma Brown, September 27, 2016.

“Ireland need fresh impotence.”

“Write it down in your own handwriting.”

“There's a woman in the United States who predicted the plane we were traveling on would crash. Now, a lot of people would like to think we were scared into saying a prayer. What we did actually--we drank.”

“[I began to unload] the pyramid of honors, civic and literary, which had been heaped on me by the headlong process of rewarding a popular success. One day, I sat down and wrote a wholesale lot of letters of resignation. When I finished, I didn't belong to a single authors club or patriotic society. I was myself again, whatever that was.”

“The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other.”

Source : E F Benson (2014). “Mapp and Lucia Omnibus: Queen Lucia, Miss Mapp and Mapp and Lucia”, p.43, Random House

“The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.”

“Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host.”