Success comes from continuing to strive, fail and learn without losing enthusiasm.

Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.

Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.

In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.

Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.

We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.