Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.

they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!

I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English ‘education’ fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school — I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet — but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.