“History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.”

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

“Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.”

“I had always assumed that cliche was a suburb of Paris until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.”

“The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James 1st James 2nd and the Old Pretender.”

“I had always assumed that cliche was a suburb of Paris until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.”

“I know this goes without saying, but Stonehenge really was the most incredible accomplishment. It took five hundred men just to pull each sarsen, plus a hundred more to dash around positioning the ...”

“JACKThat is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury.ALGERNONThen your wife wil...”

“First of all, you must never speak of anything by its name -- in that country. So, if you see a tree on a mountain, it will be better to say 'Look at the green on the high'; for that's how they tal...”

“Basically, if the mind stays in the present, its impossible to worry. Upon careful consideration, it becomes clear that human beings are capable of worrying only about an event that has already tra...”

“Basically, if the mind stays in the present, it’s impossible to worry. Upon careful consideration, it becomes clear that human beings are capable of worrying only about an event that has already tr...”