English literature quotes

Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.

I must have read every issue of ‚Punch‘ published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour – that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like ‚Three Men in a Boat.‘

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.