“I hate brandy… it stinks of modern literature.”

“The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.”

“hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words”

“In science, read, by preference the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.”

“In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.”

“I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.”

“It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.”

“A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.”

“Whoever wants to be a hero ought to drink brandy.”

“Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.”