There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.

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

"It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn."

I don't believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn't been told about it. It's like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn't been told it existed.

The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth - all save this come and go with us through life...These things are a part of life itself; but languor - the relaxation of yet unwearied sinews, the mind sequestered and self-regarding, the sun standing still in the heavens and the earth throbbing to our own pulse - that belongs to Youth alone and dies with it.

I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.