It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

The only thing I can't resist is temptation.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.