Attention Quote by E.F. Benson

“There were some hours to spare before his ship sailed, and having deposited his luggage, including a locked leather despatch-case, on board, he lunched…

— E.F. Benson

“Mrs. Alingsby was tall and weird and intense, dressed rather like a bird-of-paradise that had been out in a high gale, but very well…

— E.F. Benson

Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic.

— E.F. Benson

“The subject dropped, and we sat on in the dusk that was rapidly deepening into night. The door into the hall was open at…

— E.F. Benson

“The functions of the human frame are, broadly speaking, known. They are a country, anyhow, that has been charted and mapped out. But outside…

— E.F. Benson

“Miss Elizabeth Mapp might have been forty, and she had taken advantage of this opportunity by being just a year or two older. Her…

— E.F. Benson

...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking…

— E.F. Benson

“With regard to religion, finally, it may be briefly said that she believed in God in much the same way as she believed in…

— E.F. Benson

“He looked sharply towards the pollarded trees. 'Yes, just there,' he said. 'I saw it plainly, and equally plainly I saw it not. And…

— E.F. Benson

“I wonder why he hastened to tell us that George Hearne was buried in the churchyard, and then added that naturally he was!' 'It's…

— E.F. Benson

An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.

— E.F. Benson

“Ah, this delicious night air,' she said, luxuriously sniffing in the coolness. 'Night air and gardening are the great tonics. There is nothing so…

— E.F. Benson