If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

We are plunged in a long and grievous struggle. But all will come right if we all work together to the end.

Now that we are, as you say, 'in the same boat,' would it not be wise for us to have another conference ... and the sooner the better.

The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.

The reservist is twice the citizen.