The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.

Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.