One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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?
The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar.
Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.’-William Boot.
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.
O God, make me good, but not yet.
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
Free as air; that’s what they say- “free as air”. Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.