Quotes to inspire and reflect

SUDDEN SUCCESS IN GOLF IS LIKE THE SUDDEN ACQUISITION OF WEALTH. IT IS APT TO UNSETTLE AND DETERIORATE THE CHARACTER.

Deer-stalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

RUGBY IS A GOOD OCCASION FOR KEEPING 30 BULLIES FAR FROM THE CENTRE OF THE CITY.

If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

GOLF IS A GAME IN WHICH YOU CAN CLAIM THE PRIVILEGES OF AGE AND RETAIN THE PLAYTHINGS OF CHILDHOOD.

ANY DAMN FOOL CAN BEG UP SOME KIND OF JOB; IT TAKES A WISE MAN TO MAKE IT WITHOUT WORKING.

HOW LITTLE OUR CAREERS EXPRESS WHAT LIES IN US, AND YET HOW MUCH TIME THEY TAKE UP. IT’S SAD, REALLY.

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.

A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

THERE ARE ONLY TEN MINUTES IN THE LIFE OF A PEAR WHEN IT IS PERFECT TO EAT.

I think it could be plausibly argued that changes of diet are more important than changes of dynasty or… religion.

Mayonnaise… one of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

All sorrows are less with bread.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

NO MAN IS LONELY WHILE EATING SPAGHETTI: IT REQUIRES SO MUCH ATTENTION.

THERE IS ONE THING MORE EXASPERATING THAN A WIFE WHO CAN COOK AND WON’T, AND THAT’S A WIFE WHO CAN’T COOK AND WILL.

TO EAT WELL IN ENGLAND YOU SHOULD HAVE BREAKFAST THREE TIMES A DAY.

Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.

ONE CANNOT THINK WELL, LOVE WELL, SLEEP WELL, IF ONE HAS NOT DINED WELL.

No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkenness – or so good as drink.

A TAVERN IS A PLACE WHERE MADNESS IS SOLD BY THE BOTTLE.

GOOD APPLE PIES ARE A CONSIDERABLE PART OF OUR DOMESTIC HAPPINESS.

After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep, and they never turned it into anything better than a sheep.

FASHION IS GENTILITY RUNNING AWAY FROM VULGARITY, AND AFRAID OF BEING OVERTAKEN BY IT.

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

It’s wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

Vain trifles as they seem, clothes… change our view of the world and the world’s view of us.

FASHION IS WHAT YOU ADOPT WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

THERE IS ONE OTHER REASON FOR DRESSING WELL… NAMELY, THAT DOGS RESPECT IT, AND WILL NOT ATTACK YOU IN GOOD CLOTHES.

A fine coat is a livery, when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.

A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

CHUMPS ALWAYS MAKE THE BEST HUSBANDS… ALL THE UNHAPPY MARRIAGES COME FROM THE HUSBANDS HAVING BRAINS.

Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they did not they would be married too.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.

IF A WOMAN DOUBTS AS TO WHETHER SHE SHOULD ACCEPT A MAN OR NOT, SHE CERTAINLY OUGHT TO REFUSE HIM.

Wishing each other, not divorced, but dead; They lived respectably as man and wife.

THERE ARE MEN WHO FEAR REPARTEE IN A WIFE MORE KEENLY THAN A SWORD.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Licence my roving hands, and let them go, Before, behind, between, above, below.

There are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice.

What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.

Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed.