People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases.

Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.

The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile.

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.

[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.