Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.

. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.

Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.

It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said.

After 40, a man is responsible for his face.

It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose - a political, social and religious purpose - that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs