Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.

It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way.

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.