If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.

I read the best works of some of the best satirists, and indeed best writers from the beginning of the Victorian era to about the 1960s. If you want to be a blacksmith, you go and watch the blacksmith working, and you work out what the blacksmith does.

The pen is mightier than the sword ... if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

The brain works fast when it thinks it’s about to be cut in half.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there is some evidence that a rich internal fantasy life is as good and necessary for a child as healthy soil is for a plant, for much the same reasons.

Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.