The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.

Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.

There is no doubt that many things in life come to us...at backrounds so to speak. Happiness is one of them.

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.