I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.

There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.