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.

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.

Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

I think it's one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.

Saints are simply men & women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.