The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes...

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.