It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won’t you? You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. For the last three months?

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.