No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.

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.

My intention is to do more films.

Having spent a lot of time trying to figure out screenwriting, I do feel moved and I want to try to write good roles for women of every age.

My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.

Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.

I am amazed by how many individuals mess up every new day with yesterday. They insist on bringing into today the failures of yesterday and in so doing, they pollute a potentially wonderful day.

She must have Egyptian blood. Every time I try to kiss her she says, "Tut, Tut!"

Every man has a mission from God to help his fellow beings.

The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

If you do things out of time you're weird.

Courage is like a strain of yoghurt culture, if you have some you can have some more.