Whisky is liquid sunshine.

An index is a great leveller.

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

When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.