No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.