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.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

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

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil, and it will somehow destroy itself. But why should it? What evidence is there that it does... unless conquered from the outside by military force?