The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled vehicles, each on its own side of the road, each sounding its horn and each stationary.

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.