I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see was the one described as ‘The Boneless Wonder’. My parents judged that the spectacle would be too demoralizing and revolting for my youthful eye and I have waited fifty years, to see The Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.

Writing is an adventure.

This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while we sit here, while we go away to dinner or home to bed? Nearly, 1000 - Englishmen, Britishers, and the other is America...Everything else is swept away.

Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.