“Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will be, the tragedy of the bedroom.”
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“We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.”
“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
“All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the English-speaking races are the worst offenders. One can see this from the fact that as soon as they become fully aware of any foreign race they invent an insulting nickname for it.”
“But the problems of perpetuating a hierarchical society go deeper than this. There are only four ways in which a ruling group can fall from power. Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt, or it allows a strong and discontented Middle group to come into being, or it loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern.”
“Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.”
“Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.”
“Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)”
“This world is twisted beyond hope, when lowborn smugglers must vouch for the honor of kings.”
“Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.”
“Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.”
“Sorrow makes us very good or very bad.”
“The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.”
“I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.”
“For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.”
“I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.”
“Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.”
“I think we should do better next week, better the week after, and better right throughout the course of our government. Sometimes in parties these things happen, but it is not acceptable and I do believe that what people now want to do is to debate the future - about policy - and I think the issues about what Tony Blair will or will not do are going to be left to Tony Blair”
“I don't think Jeremy Corbyn's going to stay, he's going to go. He knows parliamentary party have no faith in him.”
“That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.”