You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them
If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.
You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.
Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.