I have come abroad to amuse myself, but I doubt whether I know how." "Oh, that's easily learned." "Well, I may perhaps learn it, but I am afraid I shall never do it by rote.

I have the best will in the world about it, but my genius doesn't lie in that direction.

As a loafer I shall never be original, as I take it that you are." "Yes," said Tristram, "I suppose I am original; like all those immoral pictures in the Louvre." "Besides," Newman continued, "I don't want to work at pleasure, any more than I played at work.

I want to take it easily.

I feel deliciously lazy, and I should like to spend six months as I am now, sitting under a tree and listening to a band.