General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics.

It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves.

A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color

We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution.

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin.