Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.

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

His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.

I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

No one is ever holy without suffering.

Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'.