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

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

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.

Every kind of writing is hypocritical.

Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.