Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept.

Never let a good crisis go to waste

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

One evening at Chequers the film was Oliver Twist. Rufus, as usual, had the best seat in the house, on his master's lap. At the point when Bill Sikes was about to drown his dog to put the police off his track, Churchill covered Rufus's eyes with his hand. He said, "Don't look now, dear. I'll tell you about it afterwards."

He looks like a female llama who has been surprised in the bath.

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

Who is not liberal when young, does not have a heart. Who is not conservative when old, does not have a brain.