I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.
The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.
She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.
A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.
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.