I do not stare at a gentleman in distress.

Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking himself up and brushing himself down became a minor art form, ruefully admired by his contemporaries.

Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Ask with urgency and passion.

In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.