The Englishman Wants To Be Recognized As

One Of The Misfortunes Of Our Time Is That In Getting Rid Of False Shame, We Have Killed Off So Much Real Shame As Well.

Highly Educated Bores Are By Far The Worst; They Know So Much, In Such Fiendish Detail, To Be Boring About.

We Are Neurotically Haunted Today By The Imminence, And By The Ignominy, Of Failure. We Know At How Frightening A Cost One Succeeds: To Fail Is Something Too Awful To Think About.

Someone Who Gossips Well Has A Reputation For Being Good Company Or Even A Wit, Never For Being A Gossip.

One Must Never Judge The Writer By The Man; But One May Fairly Judge The Man By The Writer.