Politics is a blood sport.

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.

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

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.

Virtue is its own punishment.