Tell me, was it you or your brother who was killed in the war?

The Lord is a shoving leopard.

Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.

I remember your name perfectly, but I just can't think of your face.

Poor soul - very sad; her late husband, you know, a very sad death - eaten by missionaries - poor soul.

In the sermon I have just preached, whenever I said Aristotle, I meant St. Paul.

The weight of rages will press hard upon the employer

The Brigadier had no wish to shake hands with the improbable young man in the ridiculous frock-coat.

The only way to find happiness is to create it inside your mind.

Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

The pedal is the soul of the piano.

You cannot change the stripes of a leopard.

I think people who make objects like the distance; they're not there when the other person is taking it in.

I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you?

In 'Packing for Mars,' I tried to convey the importance of getting young people interested in science.

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else