What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.

You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight in the social boat, if you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we cannot use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.