Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say 'Bless You'.

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

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

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.

No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

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