An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation..

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation..

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case ….

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal..

A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that if, say, Oscar Wilde….

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when huma….

There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans..

The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devi….

He was not only a bore; he bored for England..

The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists..

The English have this extraordianry respect for longevity. The best example of this was Queen Victoria, a most unpleasant woman who achieved a sort o….

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message..

Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the….

I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself a mathema….

It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early..

As an old man...looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's taught one anything is s….

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up..

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise..

It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television..

One of the stupidest theories of Western life..

The whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. All this, wonderfully enough, is being done in ….