One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.
To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.