"It was the fault of the war, the outlandish, innovatory war that did not conform to the proper text-books as it ought…"

"All of ourselves, with our boastful chatter about “the public school spirit”, our gallant, robust contempt for “swats…"

"We all see more of architecture than of any other art. Every street is a gallery of architects’ work, and in most str…"

"Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used to keep your f…"

"The true delight of travel, the one that is going to print itself unaccountably and indelibly on you, seems to prefer…"

"Nothing in language is immutably fixed: the best writers are constantly changing it. Absolute government by dictionar…"

"What I mean by reading is not skimming, not being able to say as the world saith, "Oh, yes, I've read that!," but rea…"

"Mr. Montague has written a very fine book. He has extenuated nothing and set down nothing in malice. I have seen no b…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"