An artist must be a reactionary

'I don't believe you've changed at all, Charles.' 'No, I'm afraid not.' 'D'you want to change?' 'It's the only evidence of life.'

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending to be whole.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.