While the game of deadlocks and bottle-necks goes on, another more serious game is also being played. It is governed by two axioms. One is that there can be no peace without a general surrender of sovereignty: the other is that no country capable of defending its sovereignty ever surrenders it. If one keeps these axioms in mind one can generally see the relevant facts in international affairs through the smoke-screen with which the newspapers surround them.

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

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class.

We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.

She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.