Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.

We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.

When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.