I had always imagined that Clich? was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

The cheerful clatter of Sir James Barrie's cans as he went round with the milk of human kindness.

An Englishman is a man who lives on and island in the North Sea governed by Scotsmen

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success