Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statement….

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 ….

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher..

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

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..

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….

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

A busybody's work is never done..

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

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

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….

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels..

The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative techni….

I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the rad….

I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of….

Truth comes to us mediated by human love..

I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father..

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational..

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics..

It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise oppos….

We tell ourselves that God is dead, when what we mean is that God is Dad, and we wish him dead..