 The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. |
| We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit. |
| There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances. |
| I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep. |
| The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up. |
| Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth. |
| One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. |
| Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases. |
| We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school. |
| It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. |
| My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally. |
| I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners. |
| In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. |
| He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. |
