Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.

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.

Suicide is not chosen

There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged

I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

Seven days without love makes one weak.

With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.

... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.

I'm a huge poster collector.

The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.

I was a normal kid. I rebelled. But I've never been a liberal. And there have been all kinds of efforts to make me one. I've not bothered to tell any of these stories. Folks, we all face them.

To ignore your conscience is to invite trouble.