When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

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.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.

You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.