The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.

It's no use crying over spilt summits.

He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except that of mute.

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.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.