Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.

Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral.

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

Lloyd George is a one-eyed fellow in blinkers.

We regard our parties as interesting groups of gladiators.

Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.

A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life.