For the future. For the unborn.

The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.