I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Nobody ever died of laughter.
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.
Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.
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.