Do you agree with him ?' She tried to be serious.
'I suppose one should count the cost before--' 'Before one joins a ministry?
Yes, that's a fair stroke.

I wish to heaven I had never joined it.

But when I began to think that this particular Ministry was taking English society to perdition, it was as well--wasn't it ?--that I should leave it ?' Her face suddenly calmed itself to a sweet gravity.
'Oh yes--yes!--if it was as bad as that.' 'I'm not likely to confess, anyway, that it wasn't as bad as that!--But I will confess that I generally incline to hate my own side,--and to love my adversaries.

English Liberals moreover hold the ridiculous opinion that the world is to be governed by intelligence.

I couldn't have believed it of any sane men.