Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.