It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.

Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

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.

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

I may be old fashioned, but I am right.