It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

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.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame

'Sightseers' started off as a character comedy double act.

Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Absent opens a door to a view of Iraqi life we have seldom seen. With a compassionate eye Khedairi explores a community, damaged by wars and sanctions, struggling for survival.

No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.

Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?

The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.