There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that if, say, Oscar Wilde had lived into his nineties, instead of dying in his forties, he would have been considered a benign, distinguished figure suitable to preside at a school prize-giving or to instruct and exhort scout masters at their jamborees. He might even have been knighted.

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

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age.

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.