England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five years onto the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.

The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

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