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

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

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

“Virtue is its own punishment.”

“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.”

“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 can call the attempt to refute theism by displaying the continuity of belief in God with primitive delusions the method of Anthropological intimidation.”