Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.

... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies of his readers in the hardships he has capriciously invited.

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar.

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

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.