"By shooting your cook you were refusing him permission to enter your house."

"If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal."

"I have yet to meet a liberal who can withstand the attrition of prolonged discussion of the inessentials. ... There a…"

"The man who said the pen was mightier than the sword ought to have tried reading "" to Motor Mechanics."

"While he lived a violent life in his imagination, Eva, lacking any imagination at all, lived violently in fact."

""Liberal studies means..." said Mrs Chatterway, who prided herself on being an advocate of progressive education, in …"

"Eva Wilt got to her feet and stood with the rain running down her face and as she stood there the illusions that had …"

"The number of choirboys indecently assaulted annually by vicars and churchwardens may lead you to suppose that Englan…"

"There's nothing worse than an introspective drunk."

"'Do go on,' he said. 'There's nothing I enjoy more than listening to a highly trained intelligence leapfrogging commo…"