England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change out of all recognition and yet remain the same.

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.

Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles.

Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.