Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just... his... turn!

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.

The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. … It's the party at present in power.