Express quotes

Conversation is never easy for the British, who are never keen to express themselves to strangers or, for that matter, anyone, even themselves.

- Malcolm Stanley Bradbury
  Rates of Exchange, pt.5, ch.3.

I do not write for money or fame† One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensible to one's happiness to express.

- Marianne Craig Moore
  Ewing Lecture, University of California, 3 Oct.

I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

-Vladimir Nabokov
  Interview in Playboy,  Jan.

I turned to Aunt Agatha, whose demeanour was now rather likethat of one who, picking daisies on therailway, hasjustcaughtthe down expressinthesmall oftheback.

-Plum
  The InimitableJeeves, ch.4.

There'll alwaysbe anEngland, but whowants anEngland full of morons reading the Express?

-Plum
  Letter to Denis Mackail, 22 Apr.