Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.

George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.

Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.

Marriage is rather a silly habit.

The British public has always had an unerring taste for ungifted amateurs.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.