If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?

Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains--the few that there were--stopped at all the stations. Denis knew the names of those stations by heart. Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West Bowlby, and, finally, Camlet-on-the-Water.

The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.

Can you say something about nothing?

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.