It's miles worse for you than that; I'm in love with your gamekeeper.

Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

English literature is a flying fish.

He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.

When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.