Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.

Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.

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

If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out

Surely, comrades, you don't want Jones back?

The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five years onto the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.

What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person.