“The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.”

“Bedroom insulation is unnecessary and restrictive of optimum summer sleeping comfort.”

“A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.”

“Brothers don`t necessarily have to say anything to each other-they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.”

“In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.”

“All this probing and grappling we must do, out in society: how much easier, Annabelle thinks, it is to stay in rooms you know as well as your own body, having a warm meal and an evening of television, where it's all so comfortably one-way.”

“Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.”

“The affair simply amounted to this, that they were to eat their dinner uncomfortably in a field instead of comfortably in the dining room.”

“Marriage is god's way to ensure there are few great men”

“I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.”