“When the children were very small I spent weeks alone with them high up in the Welsh hills and I used to lose the power of speech. I would return to London bereft of all vocabulary, communicating in grunts and… — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together. — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
“There is no reciprocity. Men love women. Women love children. Children love hamsters. Hamsters don't love anyone; it is quite hopeless.” — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
“I vividly recall an occasion when the oldest son was starting to crawl. We were sitting in a garden in the country with acres of velvet lawn and I picked him up and ran with him, dropped him on the touch line and flew back to sip a drink in comparative peace before he could get at me again. He… — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share
“They shared an image of the American Christmas--riches, reconciliations, tears, snow, success, sentiment, furs and firs, the shop windows shining like Heaven and everything… — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification. — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the… — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
The snag in being married to a person who knows more or less everything is that one gets hopelessly lazy. ... I never look things up in books because all I need to do is ask him, and when he gives me the answers I don't properly commit them to memory because I know if I forget all I have… — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share
There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols… — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides. — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the… — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
