I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England..

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that….

Hitler suffered acutely from meteorism; perhaps he did not suffer so acutely as those around him, since meteorism is uncontrolled farting, a conditio….

Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed..

I wanted passionately to be a priest..

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table..

History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines..

Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man..

Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming contradi….

One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clo….

As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated..

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being op….

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female popul….

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well….

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerf….

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to th….

I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy..

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year..

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming ….

A busybody's work is never done..

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them..