Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.

Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen

If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.

So little done, so much to do.

You are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life.

When people praise you, don't let it go to your head. When they criticize you, don't let it go to your heart.

Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.

Man begets, but land does not beget.

I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.

The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton.

Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.

Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.

I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for the other people who counted on our support.

I finally learned to accept that I can't make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.

Caution is the instinct of the weaker animal.

In our imaginations we believe that love is apart from us. Actually there is nothing but love, once we are ready to accept it. When you truly find love, you find yourself

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

I didn't really get into comedy until a couple months before I started doing comedy.

Why are you doing this to yourself? When something bad happens, why do you have to pick at it until it bleeds all over again?

Salvation was universally considered to be much more becoming in women than in men.