A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

How can you be the best at what you do, when you don't even know what your strengths and weaknesses are?

I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music.

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.

These days it's hard to meet women. Feel like my love life is finished. I been avoiding commitment. That's why I'm in this position.

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.

Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.

By dismissing what could work, we dismiss our own growth. We dismiss what's possible.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

I like strong/vulnerable interesting women, and then sometimes I like painting beautiful men, like Kurt Cobain, or Mr Darcy.