But I belong to the other English, who don't like the right pigeon-hole used for the wrong papers, or the wrong label on the right box

How happy everybody was, we were told, and I suppose they were - some English love improvisation and 'do it yourself'. But I belong to the other English, who don't like the right pigeon-hole used for the wrong papers, or the wrong label on the right box. I chafed under all this glorious dissolution, chafed for law and order.

A. Wilson, The old men at the zoo (1961), 278

Winchester, New College, and the Treasury are the three places where they know everything

Anyway you know it all. You were at the Treasury. Winchester, New College, and the Treasury are the three places where they know everything.

A. Wilson, The old men at the zoo (1961), 71

The fellow only has one virtue - his bluntness. He'll be ghastly if he loses that.

Sir Edgar grunted, he did not trust Clun's sympathy towards Gerald. He thought to himself, I hope Clun isn't going to start getting sanctimonious. The fellow only has one virtue - his bluntness. He'll be ghastly if he loses that.

A. Wilson, Anglo-Saxon attitudes (1956), 320