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

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

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.

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

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

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender.

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma

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