Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.

Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.

We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.

We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.