Rich people are poor people with money.

The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.

It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children

The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution