"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

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.

Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.

True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

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

Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.