We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the
influence of Wales.
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours
to amuse them.
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
I regard writing not as investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language.
To be oversensitive to clichés is like being oversensitive to table manners.
[told that Randolph Churchill had had a benign tumor removed] Leave it to modern medical science to cut out of Randolph the only thing that was not malignant.