[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions.
The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends
My sort of looks are of the kind that bore me when I see them on other people.
The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. . . . There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.
It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.
I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, and persons, too long.