Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

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

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.

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.

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.