One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

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

She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.

The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.