It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment.

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside

He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.

The fight against bad English is not frivolous.

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

A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.