The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.

Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.

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.

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

being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.

in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.

The business society is interested in training its citizens to make money, and, in this objective, it is often successful. Many of them do make money, and the ones who do not obligingly regard themselves as failures who have wasted the precious gift of life.