“Nobody ever died of laughter.”
“The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.”
“Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.”
“There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.”
“I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.”
“Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.”
“No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.”
“One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.”
“She was one of those people who said ''I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.''”
“To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.”
“The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.”
“It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.”
“Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.”
“To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.”