Quotations

"The age in which we are encamped like bewildered travelers in a garish, unrestful hotel.” Joseph Conrad in the first pages of Victory (1915).

"The world has been remade by William Le Queux." Graham Greene in his 1943 novel The Ministry of Fear. Le Queux was a bestselling Edwardian thriller writer. My grandparents read him - and A.J. Balfour said he was his favourite author.

“These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.” Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

"What is a man, after all, but his old jokes?" John Mortimer