The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .

Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.

Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square, Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.