Nothing†makes a more fanatical official than a Latin. Organization is alien to their natures, but once they get the taste for it they take to it like drink.

-Hazzard, Shirley
  People in Glass Houses,'Official Life'.

The official world, the corridors of power, the dilemmas of conscience and egotismöshe disliked them all.

-Snow, C(harles) P(ercy), 1st Baron
  Homecomings, ch.22.This phrase was later used as the title of his1964 novel, Corridors of Power.