Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.

When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.

The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.