If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?

From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their racial integrity. Their sons and daughters rarely mate with humankind except their own blood relations.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

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

If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.

That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.