But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.

I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.