There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.