The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.

I wouldn't have said that Anthony Eden was equipped by nature to deal with the situation in the world today. I would have said that he was portentous, sincere, honest and rather stupid.

The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.