Let us never allow ourselves to think that poverty is an excuse for an invitation to totalitarianism, and if we should be tempted to think as much, let us remind ourselves that totalitarianism not only extinguishes liberty but institutionalises poverty as well

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.

I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.

The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.

The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large.

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.