...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.
The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.
Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.