It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.