Humility is a virtue and it is a virtue innate in guests.

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.

If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

I do believe in self-help.

And I'm scared. I'm scared for my life.

There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.

Some services are too important to leave to the marketplace.

When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

...an actor is exactly as big as his imagination.

You may have the right to live anyway you like, but you don't have a right to have other people like it. Respect it or pay for it.

The lows are disappointing but that makes the highs much sweeterThat's what drives you to compete.

Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.