He has one gift most dangerous to a spectator, a vast command of a kind of language, grave and majestic, but of vague and uncertain import.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

Ah, Oxford on the surface, but Liverpool below.

The Labour movement is but the tail of the great Liberal lion.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, an…

'Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible,' she said, 'but that alone doesn't make it true.'

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.