Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.