The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

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

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

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

'I don't believe you've changed at all, Charles.' 'No, I'm afraid not.' 'D'you want to change?' 'It's the only evidence of life.'

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.