The Various Flavours Of Coffee

J. Walter Thompson.’ Pinker grimaces. ‘Quite why Americans have to put both dates and initials in the wrong order I shall never know.

the Arabs - they’re the fascinating ones: you never know where you are with them. Their judgement is always being clouded by something: religion, or vanity, or pride.’

Brewer was a politician: he had known the best way to make his appeal to me.

he was a type of man for whom love was indistinguishable from his own interests.

How easy it was to confuse attention with affection!

They talked of rousing all London, but never seemed to have enough postage stamps.

to compare the floral bouquet of a Yemeni mocca with ‘the rose-petal vapours of a maiden’s breath’. ‘There is no such aroma, Robert. You only wish it to be so,’

Molly Allen, fearless as ever.

Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me so nervous.’