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

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

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.