It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

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

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.

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live "in a period of transition." Many people have said this at many times. Adam may well have made the remark to Eve on leaving the Garden of Eden.

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

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