The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads so that, while seated on the lavatory, waiting in doctors' surgeries, on stationary trains or watching interviews with politicians, they may have something interesting to think about.

We may not be the creme de la creme, but we are the creme de la scum.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads so that, while seated on the lavatory, waiting in doctors' surgeries, on stationary trains or watching interviews with politicians, they may have something interesting to think about.

The people look forbidding, solemn, marked by that impossible ideal, Communism, which, like Christianity, seemed to demand too much of humanity and, falling into the wrong hands, led too easily to horrible brutality.

I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is.