She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

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.

One afternoon, disgusted, bravo, you fall asleep.

You can't be completely in love with a dragon and expect anything to be normal.

I think there are still words you can't use in family entertainment that you can use in a sitcom today.

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

When people say “clean as a whistle”, they forget that a whistle is full of spit.

I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden.

One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.

I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labor and diligence.