What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.