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

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

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.

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

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

"What war?" said the Prime Minister sharply. "No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned," he said defiantly, "if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?"

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.