My sort of looks are of the kind that bore me when I see them on other people.

the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.

I do not say I was ever what I would call "plain," but I have the sort of face that bores me when I see it on other people.

[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.

I was born in the country of Hogg and Scott between the Yarrow and the Tweed, in the year 1864.

There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.

The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends