It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.