Lydia Martin

“Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.”
― Evelyn Waugh

“The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Let Me Be a Woman

“no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.”
― Jacques Barzun

“Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. ”
― Jacques Barzun