Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.

In the end, in England, when you want to find out how people are feeling, you always go to the pubs.

Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance.

Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.

In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.