It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

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.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

Golf: The most ... perfect expression of National Stupidity.