I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.

Advertising is 'an evil service'.

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth