Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.
I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.