When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.

I expect I shall have to die beyond my means.

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.