What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

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.

Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.