Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."
People are either born hosts or born guests.
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.