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.
The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.
You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.
You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.