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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.
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It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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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.
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My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Of children as of procreation— the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.
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One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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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.
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Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
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Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.
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The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.
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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.
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There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
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What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them.
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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.