Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Virtue is its own punishment.