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

in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is now exerting its very considerable influence to get them to consume.

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.

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

I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12" x 8" black suède purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not come back looking baffled and saying he couldn't find it.

I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.

... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.