An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

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

Life is a test and this world a place of trial.

If Hitler invaded Hell, I'd find something nice to say about the Devil himself.