(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

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.

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

I will not be able to carry the physical burden of leading the Party at the next general election. I hope it will soon be possible for the customary processes of consultation to be carried on within the Party about its future leadership.

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

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

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