oh how television diminishes everything.

Chickens are cheerless birds, I advise you to keep geese which can be taught to follow like dogs, one needs all the companionship one can get in these days.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.