Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board.

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.