Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

Good God enlighten us! Which of these two belongs to the sterner sex - the man who sits in Whitehall all his life on a comfortable salary, or the woman who has to keep her teeth bared lest she has her meatless bone of 17s. 4d. a week snatched away from her and who has to produce the next generation on her off-days?

Anthologies are mischievous things. Some years ago there was a rage for chemically predigested food, which was only suppressed when doctors pointed out that since human beings had been given teeth and digestive organs they had to be used or they degenerated very rapidly. Anthologies are predigested food for the brain.

Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies; that a city knows not whom it entertains.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could have taken part in the drill display by the Guards or Marines or at the Royal Tournament turn that strength and precision to the service of life.