What I like about Clive / Is that he is no longer alive. / There is a great deal to be said / For being dead.

George the Third / Ought never to have occurred. / One can only wonder / At so grotesque a blunder.

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

If you only collect what's 'hot,' then you are stuck with it when it goes out of fashion. You'll have something you didn't like to begin with. It just doesn't make sense.

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.