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.

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

A good party man puts his party above himself and his country above his party.

Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.

Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.

The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed.