Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as they held that certain… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a fine palate is as… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts,… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about. — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart, elegant decorations… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
