The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

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.

Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.

The joy of writing.The power of preserving.Revenge of a mortal hand.

I apologize to my words for not nurturing you and giving you the attention that you deserve.

Life's a pitch, and then you buy.

In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.

Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.

I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.