Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what… — 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… — 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… — 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
