The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

"It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn."

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

O God, make me good, but not yet.

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

I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about me.

I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.