Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

After 40, a man is responsible for his face.

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.