I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.

The whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. All this, wonderfully enough, is being done in the name of the health, wealth, and happiness of all mankind.

One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

I think that President [Dwight] Eisenhower was... did the most marvelous job in the war, not really a military job: a public relations job, and it was essential that there should be a public relations job done in the post that he had.

All of us admire people we don't like and like people we don't admire.

It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.

For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die