The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.

I wouldn't have said that Anthony Eden was equipped by nature to deal with the situation in the world today. I would have said that he was portentous, sincere, honest and rather stupid.

I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.

He was not only a bore; he bored for England.

I don't think that it would make the slightest difference to life and to the aspects of life that interest me if we could go to the moon tomorrow, because I think what really makes life interesting is the big question "Why?"

All new news is old news happening to new people