Victoria

“You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them”
― Evelyn Waugh

“Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Labels

“When getting my nose in a book
Cured most things short of school,
It was worth ruining my eyes
To know I could still keep cool,
And deal out the old right hook
To dirty dogs twice my size.

Later, with inch-thick specs,
Evil was just my lark:
Me and my coat and fangs
Had ripping times in the dark.
The women I clubbed with sex!
I broke them up like meringues.

Don't read much now: the dude
Who lets the girl down before
The hero arrives, the chap
Who's yellow and keeps the store
Seem far too familiar. Get stewed:
Books are a load of crap.

(A Study Of Reading Habits) ”
― Philip Larkin, Collected Poems

“Something, like nothing, happens anywhere.”
― Philip Larkin