I Would Rather Be Kept

He Brings To The Fierce Struggle Of Politics The Tepid Enthusiasm Of A Lazy Summer Afternoon At A Cricket Match.

I Know That The Right Kind Of Leader For The Labour Party Is A Desiccated Calculating Machine Who Must Not In Any Way Permit Himself To Be Swayed By Indignation. If He Sees Suffering, Privation Or Injustice He Must Not Allow It To Move Him, For That Would Be Evidence Of The Lack Of Proper Education Or Of Absence Of Self-control. He Must Speak In Calm And Objective Accents And Talk About A Dying Child In The Same Way As He Would About The Pieces Inside An Internal Combustion Engine.

Listening To A Speech By [neville] Chamberlain Is Like Paying A Visit To Woolworth's, Everything In Its Place And Nothing Above Sixpence.

I Would Rather Be Kept Alive In The Efficient If Cold Altruism Of A Large Hospital Than Expire In A Gush Of Warm Sympathy In A Small One.

He Has The Lucidity Which Is The By-product Of A Fundamentally Sterile Mind.