“Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.”

“I read the newspaper avidly.It is my one form of continuous fiction.”

“The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honourable Gentleman for four and a half years. - MORE The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honourable Gentleman for four and a half years.”

“Virtue is its own punishment.”

“No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.”

“We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over!”

“Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. ”