“A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.”

“We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.”

“Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.”

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”

“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.”

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”