We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.

I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.

I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and, as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it, and if I found the right words you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen and by my tongue. It was a nation and race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.