The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.