If the child of five needs glasses to prevent injury to the eyes and to the health, the chances are that at a later age the double injury will not be avoided except by glasses. All the nonsense about “bespectacled children” and a “beglassed nation” must be contemptuously put down. If the facts are as stated, pride and prejudice must have no voice in the matter.

[H]e had little time or respect for the rich skip bitches who were his neighbours, useless fake-tanned women with plastic smiles and silicone tits who spent their husbands' money on afternoon teas, endless shopping and personal trainers.

Then when the words were said, and man's form had tried to sanctify that which was already divine, we walked amid the pealings of the “Wedding March” into the vestry […]

The court held that “proportional airtime” had to be given to protobacco and antitobacco advertising.