When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

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.

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.

America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.

Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.

If you mean to profit, learn to please.