It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

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.

Since God is truth, a contempt for truth is equally a contempt for God.

...'Better is the end of a matter than its beginning.'– Ecclesiastes 7:8

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

So that left me. To save my hatchlings and my underground, even if I couldn't be there anymore.

Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.

A good man's life is never quite ended; something of it always remains to touch and illuminate other lives.

I ordinarily do one film a year and the rest of the time I'm at home with the kids. Even when I am working I'm still basically at home and with the kids. I've never left them to go to work.

The body, then, has a mind of its own. It must follow, then, that the Mind has a body of its own, even if it’s like nothing that we can see around us, or have ever seen.

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.

The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.