I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

It was a cozy home for us in Wallington, but my dark thoughts haunted it.