A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.