Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.

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.

Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist.

The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.