Quotes by Hesketh Pearson

• A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.
• When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.
• There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.
• Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
• Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.