Only the insane take themselves seriously.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

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

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

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.

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.