Best quotes from The House of Arden

“When I grow up,” said Edred, “I shall go across the sea and look for your ship and bring it home. I shall take a steam-tug and steer it myself.”

Because people who go to the seaside and take lodgings seem, somehow, much harder to please than the people who go to hotels.

I don’t know what the contrary (or opposite) of taxes is, any more than the children did—but I am sure it is something quite nice—and so were they.

It is all very wonderful and mysterious, as all life is apt to be if you go a little below the crust, and are not content just to read newspapers and go by the Tube Railway, and buy your clothes ready-made, and think nothing can be true unless it is uninteresting.

“Good luck!” says I to my sweetheart, “For I will love you true; And all the while we’ve got to part, My luck shall go with you.”