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I put the words down and push them a bit.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

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.

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

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.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

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

Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

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

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.

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.

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.

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