Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

I'd love to wake up to complete silence, white sheets, and the smell of crisp air and roses.

Blinking, twinkling, burning brightAre all the stars that light the night.Dippers, Ursa's and Orion too, But don't forget the star in you.

Dark matter is everywhere. In this room. Everywhere.

I can't make you love me, but you can't keep me from loving you.

I was the original voice of Mattels Barbie for an 80s claymation workout video.

The advantage of Fashion is that there is no racism

If everybody's doing everything, then who's accountable for anything?

Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales, where walking was part of the holiday.

Nick, fetch my car, fetch my clothes, sweep the chimney, make my bed, watch my psychopath, fetch my slippers.

Bad husbands will make bad wives.