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.

The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface.

The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled vehicles, each on its own side of the road, each sounding its horn and each stationary.

The Crimean War is one of the bad jokes of history.

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

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

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

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

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

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