A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

There is also one excellent reason why the veriest amateur may feel entitled to have an opinion about education. For if we are not all professional teachers, we have all, at some time or other, been taught. Even if we learned nothing-perhaps in particular if we learned nothing-our contribution to the discussion may have a potential value.

But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.

whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.

But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of the obvious.