Judgment is guilt wearing a moral mask to disguise its pain.
Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience.
When a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. When he says perhaps, he means no. When he says no, he is not a diplomat. When a lady says no, she means perhaps. When she says perhaps, she means yes. But when she says yes, she is no lady.
We shouldn't have all these campaigns to get the Birmingham Six released if they'd been hanged. They'd have been forgotten and the whole community would be satisfied.
There are many things in life more worthwhile than money. One is to be brought up in this our England which is still the envy of less happy lands.
The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country.
Things are not going to improve for you in life until YOU improve
Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?
Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of their own. In our country, they pulverize everything in their path - the landscape, the natural environment, history and tradition, the amenities and civilities, the privacy and spaciousness of life, much beauty, and the fragile, slow-growing social structures that bind us together.
We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.