I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science.
I should like to have been killed in the war.
If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided 'at all costs'. what is the point of having one?
It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors.
No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
As so often, the ordinary rank and file of the electorate have seen a truth, an important fact, which has escaped so many more clever people the underlying value of that which is traditional, that which is prescriptive.
Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard myself as a Tory. As I have said, I was born that way; I believe it is congenital. I am unable to change it. That is how I see the world. . . is the most un-Tory thing that can be conceived.
You have to take a lot of bad pictures. Dont' be afraid to take bad pictures. . . You have to take a lot of bad pictures in order to know when you've got a good one.
I want to look into a mirror that will love my own reflection harder than I hate myself.
That which is seen and that which is touched are of a dream-like and illusion-like nature. Because feeling arises together with the mind, it is not [ultimately] perceived.
Theories of art carry the seeds of their own destruction.