We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.

You cannot trust the interests of any class entirely to another class; and you cannot trust the interests of any sex to another sex.

The conventional heaven with its angels perpetually singing etc nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for ten years. My opinion is that we shall be reincarnated.

A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.

God has chosen little nations as the vessels by which He carries His choicest wines to the lips of humanity to rejoice their hearts, to exalt their vision, to strengthen their faith, and if we had stood by when two little nations [Belgium and Serbia] were being crushed and broken by the brutal hands of barbarians, our shame would have rung down the everlasting ages.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

If you listen to the neverdo's, it's never done.