We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.

The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.

The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.

By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.

Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept.

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.