The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

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

The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!

At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.

I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying "I must read that, too, when I've the time," replace it and continue the search.