the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.

This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.

The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.

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

In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.