If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.