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

The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.