The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.

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

Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social.

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

Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.

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

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