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.

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

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.

I have learned that in all negotiations nothing matters except the will to reach agreement.

I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.

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.