It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
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 was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.