“There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.  ”

“England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.”

“I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.”

“It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.”

“You mean that a Frenchman could share with a friend and yet not go to prison?’ ‘Share? Do you mean unite? If both are of age and avoid public indecency, certainly.’ ‘Will the law ever be that in England?’ ‘I doubt it. England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.”

“...for literature had always been a solace for him, something that the ugliness of facts could not spoil.”

“At Oxford he learned that the importance of human beings has been vastly over rated by specialists.”