News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.

I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.