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

Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

The world's fat is badly divided.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.