The serjeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love-making.

'There are strings,' said Mr Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and- cheese knife in the air, 'in the human heart that had better not be wibrated. That's what's …

Oh gracious, why wasn't I born old and ugly?

To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, …

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace - Christopher Robin went down with Alice. They've great big parties inside the grounds. 'I wouldn't be king for a h…

'...it is not when he is working in his office but when he is lying idly on the sand that his soul utters, 'Life is beautiful.'' (p. 2)