The French cook; we open tins.

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.

The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.

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.

He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world!

By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.

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.