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.

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

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

Revolt by all means, but only on one issue at a time. To do more would be to confuse the whips.

There are three bodies no sensible man directly challenges: the Roman Catholic Church, the Brigade of Guards and the National Union of Mineworkers

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

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.