democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.

I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.

Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.

The people who are unprejudiced, but who ... feel it is so hopeless there is no use trying ... probably do just as much damage to the emotional atmosphere in which we are facing the problem as the fanatical Negrophobes.

The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity makes you feel that now the thing is in good hands.

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.

Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.