Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?

Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.

A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment.

And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.