Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

English is the easiest language to speak badly.

We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.

It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.