Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

Most of our people have never had it so good.

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

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

Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable - by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is inconvenient in normal times.

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.