She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making light of any great difficulties or grief's that may beset us.

Only the insane take themselves seriously.

The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.

I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay.

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.