There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

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

Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and been so widely and recklessly applied.

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

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

I agree with... actually it was [Joseph] Stalin who said that [Winston Churchill] he was a man who changed the history of the world and I think, if he had not been there in 1940, it might very well have been the case that we would have collapsed like France, and I shall honor him always for that.

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.