The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. ... War is Peace.

The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.

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.

Manchester is the belly and guts of the nation

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.