Things don't happen to me. I happen to things!

Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at it. But the only safe way is to convince Hitler that he cannot beat us.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.