... life is short and the world is wide

Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.

Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.

...dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun.