that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Froth at the top dregs at bottom but the middle excellent.

Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.

The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.

I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s.

A single tree doesn't make a forest.

I like doing small parts, because I don't feel I'm that practised in acting. It's like making baby steps towards a bigger goal.

From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.

I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent.