January 25, 2025

Laws are like spiders’ webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but larger things break through and escape.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

[On hearing Lady Mountbatten’s anti-monarchical views] How easy it seems for a semi-royal millionnairess, who has exhausted all the pleasures of money and position, to turn almost Communist!