No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

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.

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.

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

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

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