Who said “Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you…”?

“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”

“To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.”

“Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.”

“Never was a miser a brave soul.”

“Penny wise is often pound foolish.”

“Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?”

“Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.”

“Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.”

“Sexual intercourse began in 1963 (which was rather late for me) -- Between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles first LP.”

“Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.”