To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.
The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.
England is the Mother of Parliaments
I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.
There is no nation on the continent of Europe that is less able to do harm to England, and there isno nation on the continent of Europe to whom we are less able to do harm, than Russia. We are so separate that it seems impossible that the two nations, by the use of reason or common sense at all, could possibly be brought into conflict with each other.
This old aristocracy and Church-ridden, and tradition-ridden country will never grow wiser. Whilst we are fighting for supremacy in Europe the [United] States are working , and not fighting for it, but winning it all over the world.
The Aristocratic Institutions of England [had] acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America. . . [in] demoralis[ing] large classes outside their own special boundaries. . . [in producing] a long habit of submission. . . [and in] enfeebl[ing] by corrupting those who should assail them.
I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't.
A man’s doubts and fears are his worst enemies. He can go ahead and do anything as long as he believed in himself.
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth.