“Thirty million, mostly fools.[When asked the population of England]”

“it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.”

“The foundation of England's greatness is that Englishmen hate to look fools.”

“At a conservative estimate, there are probably a million men and women in their twenties and thirties who would happily work long hours doing what most needs to be done, if they were paid something for it.”

“Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible? Corelli asked. 'Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?”

“People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!”