E M Forster was like a tea cozy, but I quite liked him. I was at a wedding party with him once, sitting opposite Queen Mary. I asked if he would like to be presented. Good Lord, he said. I thought it was the wedding cake.
– Ronald Duncan
I was lecturing to a group of English teachers about Dante. Suddenly one of them got up-English teachers, mind you-and said, What is Dante? Well, Madam, I replied, It is a kind of detergent.
– Ronald Duncan
Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?