Virtue is its own punishment.

I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates like a war and the war like a debate.

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.