The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.

To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.

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

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.