I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.