It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

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

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about me.