I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.
Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.
A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.
The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they’re liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can’t be realized.
He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.
Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
The English have this extraordianry respect for longevity. The best example of this was Queen Victoria, a most unpleasant woman who achieved a sort of public affection simply by living to be an enormous age.
The “pursuit of happiness” is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.
It is simply that America is very rich and very powerful and generally speaking everybody hates the rich and the powerful.
The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.
As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did.
It’s the circumstances of popular monarchy, the manner in which it’s developed, and it is also the fault of the people who present her with this unquestioning adulation. In other words, it’s their lack of a larger faith. Which makes them fasten onto, a purely earthly symbol.
There’s nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.
I have to say that I think that Anthony Eden was probably the most disastrous Prime Minister in our history, and I am not forgetting Lord North and a few people like that.
Civilization – a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people who produces them.
I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.
An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.
American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which nuns or athletes might find excessive.