The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children

The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives.

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that has accumulated since, in spite of the fact that children are now comparatively sanely treated, no novelist has shown the same power of entering into the child's point of view.