Aren't most of you descended from pirates?

"It looks as though it was put in by an Indian." He later backtracked: "I meant to say cowboys."

We go into the red next year... I shall have to give up polo.

Wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect.

It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.

In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools.

All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.