When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in YOU than there was before."

"We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source."

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters . . .

"There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves."