A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.

Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.