The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.

The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

I have to realise that as I am only English and am allowed to live in America, I have to give something in return. And since I cannot build a hospital, or endow a university, I can only give my infinite availability.

I never spend my time doing anything I'll have to do again tomorrow.

Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who...have already accepted as inevitable the wide gulf between their real futures and the expectations of their fantasies.