Society and the World

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

Justice is truth in action.

The Continent will [not] suffer England to be the workshop of the world.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Though I sit down now, the time will come when you will hear me.

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.

Minerva House … where some twenty girls … acquired a smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.

Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.

‘It’s always best on these occasions to do what the mob do.’ ‘But suppose there are two mobs?’ suggested Mr Snodgrass. ‘Shout with the largest,’ replied Mr Pickwick.

‘It’s always best on these occasions to do what the mob do.’ ‘But suppose there are two mobs?’ suggested Mr Snodgrass. ‘Shout with the largest,’ replied Mr Pickwick.

Kent, sir—everybody knows Kent—apples, cherries, hops, and women.

Here’s the rule for bargains: ‘Do other men, for they would do you.’

Here’s the rule for bargains: ‘Do other men, for they would do you.’

Affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving— HOW NOT TO DO IT.

Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving— HOW NOT TO DO IT.

There’s milestones on the Dover Road!

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Now, what I want is, Facts … Facts alone are wanted in life.

Now, what I want is, Facts … Facts alone are wanted in life.

It was as true … as taxes is. And nothing’s truer than them.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.