“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Virtue is its own punishment.”

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

“The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.”