If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.

George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.

History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.

Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.