It isn’t those who always addressing each other as comrade who necessarily show the most brotherly feelings.

If ever the call comes to them, the young will go straight from the ranks of the neutralists into the ranks of he Majesty’s Forces, as they have so often done in the past.

You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of “Ungentlemanly,” “Not fair” and all the rest.

Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable – by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is inconvenient in normal times.

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you’re abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

It’s no use crying over spilt summits.

It is the duty of Her Majesty’s government neither to flap nor to falter.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool.

Britain’s most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

It’s a good thing to be laughed at. It’s better than to be ignored.