This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.

As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.

There is no reason why a joke should not be appreciated more than once. Imagine how little good music there would be if, for example, a conductor refused to play Beethoven's Fifth Symphony on the ground that his audience might have heard it before.