If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong.

It's no use crying over spilt summits.

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.