Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.

The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.

A body of 500 men chosen at random from amongst the unemployed.

You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.

Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.