Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade.

Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by without violent rioting of one kind or another. They happen so frequently that they are almost part of London's texture.

I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call'd Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a looking-glass against the Sunne, so I will dazzle you all.

Freud was just a novelist.

The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.

I saw a ghost once, about 20 years ago. It took the form of someone coming out of a sleeping body and sitting at the foot of the bed.

The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.