The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.

Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.