In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

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

Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.