I think it's one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

MGM bores me when I see them, but I don't see them much. They have been a help in getting me introductions to morticians, who are the only people worth knowing.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in Newman's day; her autumnal mists, her grey springtime, and the rare glory of her summer days - such as that day - when the chestnut was in flower and the bells rang out high and clear over her gables and cupolas, exhaled the soft airs of centuries of youth. It was this cloistral hush which gave our laughter its resonance, and carried it still, joyously, over the intervening clamour.

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

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.