And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate.

The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.

A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.

To die hating them, that was freedom.

Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it.... Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness.