Every kind of writing is hypocritical.

Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

Every kind of writing is hypocritical.

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet