In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness of life, and all the hours of idleness are plus ones, is a most ludicrous and pernicious doctrine, and its greatest support comes from our not taking sufficient trouble, not making a real effort, to make work as near pleasure as it can be.

Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.

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