A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.