If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.

I can't bare you when you're not amusing.

... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them

It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.

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

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