Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.

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.

Friends I beg you do not shirk your daily task of indolence.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.

Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is printed.

Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her.

The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.

I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

I thought the race could be won in the last kilometers in the park. Every hill I ran in training I ran to gain an extra step in the park.

I see Sandy Barr got himself a $4 haircut...$1 for each side.