"To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine."

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

"The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, …"

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

"The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends."

"Lift latch, step in, be welcome, Sir, Albeit to see you I’m unglad."

"Only the insane take themselves quite seriously."

"There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as '…"

"Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint."

"Most women are not so young as they are painted."