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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

From the moment I picked your book up until I put it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

I didn't like the play but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

The problem with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

She had a face of such immovable stupidity that it amounted to a sort of strange beauty.

Mr Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has much to be modest about.

An empty taxi arrived at 10 Downing Street, and when the door was opened, Atlee got out

Murray has no head - his neck just haired over.

One could not even dignify him with the name of stuffed shirt. He was simply a hole in the air.

When they circumcised Herbert Samuel, they threw away the wrong bit.

He has no more backbone than a chocolate éclair.

We know that he has, more than any other man, the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were very often angry at each other.