I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.