Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.

Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few months. After the first two years it was difficult to believe that they would ever end.

What a fool I have been!

Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you're drunk. Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober.

I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses.

My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.