In Success you deserve it and in defeat, you need it.

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.

There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.