“The sun no longer shows His face; and treason sows His secret seeds that no man can detect; Fathers by their children are undone; The brother would the brother cheat; And the cowled monk is a deceit… Might is right, and justice there is none. Walther von der Vogelweide
“Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Alexander Pope
“Randolph Churchill went into hospital… to have a lung removed. It was announced that the trouble was not “malignant.”… It was a typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.Evelyn Waugh