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.
A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.