You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

I put the words down and push them a bit.

The better sort of Ishmaelites have been Christian for many centuries and will not publicly eat human flesh uncooked in Lent, without special and costly dispensation from their bishop.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.