Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written.
If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.
The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned peas in tiny jam-tart cases, watery gooseberry sauce; trifle made with a resinous wine, so jammy that all my teeth lit up at once.