Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

There are three bodies no sensible man directly challenges: the Roman Catholic Church, the Brigade of Guards and the National Union of Mineworkers

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

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.

If ever the call comes to them, the young will go straight from the ranks of the neutralists into the ranks of he Majesty's Forces, as they have so often done in the past.

Most of our people have never had it so good.