People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

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.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.