I have to say that I think that Anthony Eden was probably the most disastrous Prime Minister in our history, and I am not forgetting Lord North and a few people like that.

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

I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.

There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.

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

It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.

There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.