“An optimistic early-rising whore with red lips and red boots sauntered along, smiling hopefully at middle-aged men, but there were no takers at this hour.”

“The small boys came early to the hanging.”

“The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.”

“Moderates always seem to deal in hopes rather than in facts.”

“It was an odd thing to do, to stand in a street in the hope of seeing someone who hardly knew him, but he did not want to move.”

“Such talk makes you think of radiation like water in a pool: if it’s four feet high you’re safe, if it’s eight feet high you drown. But in fact radiation levels are much more like speed limits on the highway – thirty miles per hour is safer than eighty, but not as safe as twenty, and the only way to be completely safe is not to get in the car.”

“And what if Britain lost? There would be a financial crisis, unemployment, and destitution. Working-class men would take up Ethel’s father’s cry and say that they had never been allowed to vote for the war. The people’s rage against their rulers would be boundless.”