I liked wine, both red and white, and especially Champagne; and on very special occasions I could even drink a small glass of brandy.

Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.

There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety.

Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.

Air power may either end war or end civilization.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.