They make a wilderness and call it peace.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

George Orwell

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! -- what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

William Makepeace Thackeray

I like bats much better than bureaucrats. I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of Admin. The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid dens of crime that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern.

C.S. Lewis, Screwtape Letters, p

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

William Osler

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

Thomas Jefferson

I have a weird sense of humour. My dad's the same. We love watching 'Monty Python' together.

Miranda Kerr

Cosmic Ordering is a dish best served today.

Stephen Richards

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

Dalai Lama

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

Thomas Carlyle

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Lewis Mumford

Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish...It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.

Hermann Hesse

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much.

William Shakespeare