He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending to be whole.

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

The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar.

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

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

The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of art. The necessary elements of style are lucidity, elegance, and individuality; these three qualities combine to form a preservative which ensures the nearest approximation to permanence in the fugitive art of letters.