I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

In England, justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.

In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.

What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.

Next year he did not come for her. She waited in a new frock because the old one simply would not meet, but he never came. "Perhaps he is ill," Michael said. "You know he is never ill." Michael came close to her and whispered, with a shiver, "Perhaps there is no such person, Wendy!" and then Wendy would have cried if Michael had not been crying.

Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.