Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged.

I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference

Imperishable moments and immortal deeds, death itself and love stronger than death, will be as though they had never been. The energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed and the earth tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for the moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit and all his thoughts will perish. The uneasy consciousness, which in this obscure corner has for a brief space broken the contented silence of the universe, will be at rest.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

I do not stare at a gentleman in distress.