Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber.

Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.

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

We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do not want us to be so. The stronger we are, the better partners we shall be; and I feel certain that as the months pass we shall draw continually closer together with mutual confidence and respect.

A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

It isn't those who always addressing each other as comrade who necessarily show the most brotherly feelings.